Calvin Pokiak

General comments. Next I have Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Ms. Lee.

Page 2-43, labour relations and compensation services, operations expense, total operations expense is $7.576 million. Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Delorey. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Ramsay, your time has run out. I will go to Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My Member’s statement is in regard to the Tuktoyaktuk-Inuvik highway. The Department of Transportation conducted an extensive consultation process, review and study on highway strategies along the Mackenzie Valley and came out with a report in October 1999. In the report, the department looked at three routes for the Tuktoyaktuk-Inuvik highway. In the report, the department agreed that PWC-77 alignment was the most logical route to link Tuktoyaktuk and Inuvik. This route is approximately 140 kilometres. The residents of Tuktoyaktuk expressed overwhelming support.

Mr...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to recognize Debbie Raddi, SAO for Tuktoyaktuk. Also, Jackie, self-government from Sachs Harbour. Eddie Dillon was here earlier. He is the Chair of the Tuktoyaktuk Community Corporation. He is gone I think, but he was up there earlier. Also, my CA, Marilyn Cockney. Thanks.

---Applause

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to recognize my wife, Lucille Pokiak, my oldest son Bertram, and my youngest son Darren. Also my CA, Marilyn Cockney and her husband Archie Chicksi. Thank you.

---Applause