Wally Schumann

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As the Member is well aware, this issue was put in place to help offset the concerns around Ikhil, Norman Wells, and Inuvik. We believe that moving forward, as the Member has alluded to in his comments in the House there, that we have learned how to operate this thing efficiently. The other thing that we have done at the same time is gather information, and we do not see that it warrants having this in place.

We believe that the accelerated ice road could be done with limited disruption, as the ferry was closed 40 per cent of the time, as I have said a number of times due...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to make it quite clear to the Members that I am not against this program. I love this program. We have distributed all the money for the last two years that I have been here, but right now with the present situation we have there is no extra money. If the opportunity comes in the life of this 18th Legislative Assembly to put more money into this program, I will gladly have a look at it. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will give that to the deputy minister of Transportation. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We put this as a savings moving forward, but we want to look at using some of this money for the savings for ice bridge accelerations, so some of the money would be spent there; and then, the remainder of the money would be looked at spending on O and M moving forward. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Building Canada Plan. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I said when I was up here last week for ITI, let's just jump right into it instead of me sitting here, trying to debate things that we are going to get into, line items. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will turn that over to Deputy of Transportation, Mr. Neudorf. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

To answer that question, that is the reason we are in the capital planning process, so I believe that is why we are here today. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, I will, please.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As far as I am aware, the community has never approached us about this issue. Thank you, Mr. Chair.