Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am just wondering where we are at on winter roads. I was just crunching the numbers, $3.791 million this year for 1,400 kilometres, about $2,660 per kilometre. That sounds like a pretty reasonable deal to me, even though we are up possibly 45 percent from a couple of years ago on the cost of winter roads. Has the life of the winter roads…I know the duration is variable from year to year, but has the technology managed to keep up with that so far or is the life of the winter roads still roughly the same?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Next I have Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Once again, we’re on page 12, Transportation, operations expenditures, airports, not previously authorized, $56,000.

The results of the recorded vote on the motion: nine in favour, seven abstained. The motion is carried.

---Carried

Thank you, committee. We are moving on to page 11-21, activity summary, highways, operations expenditure summary, $47.859 million.

Okay, colleagues. I would like to call Committee of the Whole to order. We have before us for consideration Tabled Document 17-16(3), Supplementary Appropriation No. 3, 2008-2009. Does committee agree?

Total department, $10.833 million. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you committee. Do you now agree that consideration of Tabled Document 17-16(3) is concluded?

Are there studies that indicate the ones that are likely to have problems or have we been inventorying where the problems are likely to occur? Is there anything we can do beforehand to try and reduce the cost of that? Thank you.

Thank you, Minister. Mr. Neudorf.