Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, committee. We are on pages 11-36 and 11-37, Transportation, information item, work performed on behalf of others, $2.129 million.

Thanks to the Minister for the info. I think I heard the Minister say that the water and sewer funding formula has been changed to provide more money for communities. Is that every community that got an increase in water and sewer funding?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are addressed to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. I’d like to go back to something that I’ve been talking about for quite some time. Since the 16th Assembly, I’ve been after the Minister and the government to increase minimum wage and to bring us on a par, or at least close to par, with the rest of Canada. We did have an increase in our minimum wage on the 1st of April of 2010, and then again on the 1st of April of 2011. They were, thankfully, not an April fool’s joke.

Since 2011, I’ve been anticipating the development and the...

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Minister Ramsay.

Thanks, Madam Chair. At the risk of angering the Chair, I just want to ask one question with regard to the Inuvik-Tuk highway, I listened with interest to the exchange in the House earlier this afternoon, and I believe the public is interested in knowing details about the project and what is planned, and what the planned costs are. I would like to ask the Minister if he could advise when the public might be able to see or have access to those sorts of intricate details on the Inuvik-Tuk Highway Project. Thank you.

Pages 11-36 and 37, Transportation, information item, work performed on behalf of others, $2.129 million. Pages 11-36 and 11-37, Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just have a question with regard to the revenue on the line Joint Emergency Preparedness. We’re going from $90,000 to nil. Is that federal funding that we get and, if so, what was the $90,000 last year used for?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I want to highlight the work of a young Frame Lake constituent. Ms. Jazzy Hans is a 10-year-old student at J.H. Sissons School and she has taken the occasion of the annual Heritage Fair at her school to follow her Olympic dream.

Jazzy decided to do research about her role model, Christine Sinclair. After Ms. Sinclair’s performance at last summer’s Olympics, hopefully Members know that she is a spectacular Canadian Olympic soccer forward, that she plays for the Portland Thorns Football Club and is captain for the Canadian National soccer team.

Jazzy has been hard at...

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Minister Ramsay.

I look forward to the program review office recommendation, whenever it comes forward. My recollection of the last time around is it didn’t seem to be financially viable, so to speak.

My last question here has to do with runway upgrades. Over the last number of years we’ve been upgrading runways here and there across the territory. Does this budget include any upgrades to any of our runways? Thank you.