Robert Hawkins

Then it sounds like it operates like a normal board. By the same token, do certain representatives not have voting rights? I find it odd that you’d point it out, and why would people not have voting rights?

Thank you. The Minister keeps speaking to this as if a deal has already been formalized and it’s just a matter of it being signed off to the feds.

What new construction technology has been advanced that we will guarantee a solid construction of the Inuvik-Tuk Highway Project? I liken it to the Highway No. 3 that has been invested in for many, many years and millions of dollars and we continue to always be in bad shape. So what new construction techniques has the Department of Transportation innovated to guarantee it as a real, good, solid, quality piece of work? Thank you.

That’s a very thorough answer and I appreciate that from the Minister. Could the Minister help me understand what plan review fees is, at $15,000? There’s a significant drop. It rose from $8,000 to $31,000 in the last fiscal cycle and then it significantly dropped to the $15,000. So I’m just trying to get a sense. It seems quite a turbulent bit of a fee prediction there, if anything very challenging to manage to predict it. So perhaps he could help me understand what fee review is, for my education as well as the House and the public, and what it’s based on. Thank you.

Under emergency management, a few years ago one of the safety management people, personnel, under EMO section was laid off due to setbacks in the government. I think there were 100-and-some positions; 130 were originally eyed to be rolled away. I’m just wondering, under the scale-back, has emergency management grown or, specific to it, what is its present composition of personnel? I’ll start with that.

Thank you. Is it anticipated by the department that there will be any additional fees to this particular service, considering the offset of time and energy we’ll be saving by people booking them and organizing them, or even going through the process of having to print out the statements? So what’s the fee schedule strategy? Thank you.

Under strategic planning, I have a particular question. I guess I will have to prompt myself because the Minister said I guess the questions were mine because he didn’t want to answer them twice. Would this be the section to ask about active living for seniors? If not, maybe he could inform me as to what page that I need to ask this question.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The deputy minister was very helpful in providing a bit of a list as to who is on there. Perhaps I could get a formal copy of who sits on this board of governance. I’m just trying to understand what does voting rights mean in this particular case. So if I could get a list of its membership as well as its membership activity. So, in other words, I think he’d mentioned Avalon being a rep, but obviously Avalon is not government. So are there two or three seats signed to industry, other agencies, et cetera? I’m just trying to get a sense of their role on why they’re there...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate your guidance on that being hypothetical, but that’s also a reality that’s coming to my office as a phone call to be afraid of. So it’s important to get these issues out.

My last question is: Will all of this information be before the public long before a final decision is made in this House? Citizens need to see these facts and understand them and be able to talk to their duly elected officials here and have the good discussion with them before they make the final decision, because if it comes after the decision is made, it becomes useless information...

Can I get the detail on the fee structure? I wasn’t quite clear in the Minister’s action and the last time it was reviewed? Thank you.

I’d be happy to hear that. The travel is $165,000 on this under the public safety division, but I’m not sure if that’s all applied to fire prevention. Maybe if I could get a sense of what the travel budget is for the five regions that need to make these community visits.