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Mr. Chair, I guess I will stop hammering on that point that I don’t think the Minister answered it yet. I don’t have a problem with this money being redirected as indicated here, but I am saying as a principle when we know there will be dollars left over, why not direct them to where they can be spent. It would not set this work back. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, thanks to the Minister. I look forward to that information. Thanks for those amendments.
There are also concerns with the dust management plan for deconstruction sets action levels for toxic dust conditions so high that site activities will not trigger any management response whatsoever.
Will the Minister commit to provide information to this House on how action levels for dust conditions were set and an explanation of why those action levels prompting dust control are set so high?
I think this is the reconstruction of the Ingraham Trail and not the bypass of the Ingraham Trail. I guess my point is, here we are lapsing several million and in fact we know that the Detah road, which has been stopped at about 30 percent completion for several years now, really requires much less than what has been lapsed here in the order of a couple of million dollars for significant work to continue with maximum benefits accumulating to the community and to the road infrastructure. I am wondering if the Minister would commit as we go forward when there are lapses – it looks like there are...
This government shares responsibility for the health and safety precautions for air quality monitoring for the deconstruction project. Air sampling stations are located in town at Sir John Franklin, Niven Lake and on Latham and they will be monitored, but it’s been pointed out that fence line monitoring would be much more effective for providing an early warning system and a better indicator of site conditions and management responses. So rather than waiting to say, hey, containment have arrived, yikes, will the Minister commit to have ENR meet with AANDC project partners to amend the plan for...
That’s all I had on the Deh Cho Bridge. Thank you for that confirmation there.
With respect to Highway No. 4, I see that we have lapsed a significant amount of money there, several million dollars. I guess my first question is: What was the budget for that reconstruction? What amount of that original budget was done?
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s with great pleasure that I recognize Anne-Mieke Cameron, a resident of Weledeh who received the induction into the Hall of Fame today under the Premier’s selection. So, congratulations to Anne-Mieke. It’s great to have her in the riding. She’s probably accompanied by her husband Les, and I can’t really see these folks, but I’d also like to offer my congratulations and welcome to all those people that received the award today and were inducted into the Hall of Fame.
I’d like to welcome William Mac student Delaney Taylor, a resident of Weledeh. I’d like to recognize...
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to get confirmation that, first of all, the Deh Cho Bridge total cost will stay within the $202 million. Is that correct?
Thanks to Mr. Guy for that information. How long has Education had it and when do you need an answer to get the work done by this fall?
Again, I’ll leave it at that and I don’t see the commitment. We’ve dedicated a paltry $5 million to this long-ignored situation and half the work got done. What kind of commitment is that? I’ll leave it there.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is a $125,000 counter of cans and jars, I suppose. It seems like an awfully expensive piece of equipment here to be proliferating, especially to simply count the number of cans being recycled. I know we hired some consultant I have never heard of here to come up with that idea. I don’t know what that cost us, but I’m pretty suspect about this.
I have had occasion to take recyclables out to the recycling location here for return on deposits. I believe most of us do that in our own communities. The folks that are counting those do it lickety-split. With the glance of an...