Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Ms. Kaylo. I have next on my list Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you, committee. I’d like to thank our guests here today, Ms. Hannah and Ms. Haener. Thank you for joining us today, and of course, Minister Ramsay. If I can get the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort our witnesses out of the Chamber.

Committee, we’re just going to take a five-minute recess.

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Committee, we’re going to defer page 67 until we have consideration of the activities. I’d like to next turn to pages 68, 69, 70, 71 and 72, finance and infrastructure services, infrastructure investments, $22.187 million. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the response. For the most part, I think the Members on this side of the House were very supportive of this project. I know I have been and I’ve been able to see the merits in the long term for the residents of the Northwest Territories.

This is a P3 project, if you will, and I think we need to get an understanding of what does this really mean now that this project is finished or coming to completion and it’s now on our books. So to bring it to a conceptual number we can understand, proponents built this for the government, built this for the taxpayer and we...

I appreciate the Minister sharing those numbers, and thanks for the information. No further questions. Thank you.

Thank you. Pages 28 and 29, wildlife, infrastructure investments, $5.378 million. Does committee agree? Mr. Bromley.

Mr. Hawkins, I’ll allow another question on this activity as long as it’s nothing to do with the sheriff’s vehicle. We’ve exhausted all information on that one. Go ahead, Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Continuing with general comments on Municipal and Community Affairs, I have Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Anderson.

We know this runway is roughly 1,830 metres in length. If we’re going to be doing this drainage program, which I think it sounds like a fairly large undertaking, is there any consideration of actually increasing the length of this runway to maybe allow for larger planes to land in Hay River? Thank you.