Daryl Dolynny

Thank you. Environmental protection, not previously authorized, $125,000. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is said teachers open the door for our youth. I say government needs to fix this door. The recent pleas for better housing from our territorial teachers and from the NWT Teachers’ Association should be a wake-up call for residents and for this government. A recent housing summary report asked this government to do something concrete to alleviate the longstanding issue of housing shortages and unacceptable living conditions across the North. This April 29th report further brings awareness and understanding of the current barriers faced by this housing crisis and calls...

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. I’ll take that last bit as a comment. Committee, we’re on page 13, highways, not previously authorized, $42.258 million. Does committee agree?

Madam Chair, I appreciate the deputy minister for clarifying that. The second question I have in this category is regarding the Ingraham Trail or the Giant Mine remediation, or we refer it to as the Highway No. 4 bypass area. There is a $17 million allocation. We were led to believe in the maps of distant past that this $17 million was earmarked from the Infrastructure Canada money. This was federal money assigned to enhance infrastructure across the Northwest Territories. It was part of a larger number that was earmarked for many other communities, townships and hamlets throughout the...

Total department, not previously authorized, $869,000.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. For that answer we’re going to go to the Minister of Transportation, Minister Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 72-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2013-2014, and would like to report progress with one motion being adopted, that consideration of Tabled Document 72-17(4) is concluded, and that the House concur in those estimates and that an appropriation bill be based thereon be introduced without delay. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Madam Chair, so it is not added to the project cost, it is part of the project cost. I will have to analyze Hansard tomorrow to find out what exactly that meant.

Again, I am extremely confused and probably somewhat disappointed again with the way we are handling our large-scale projects, the way we are handling remediation work and our demolition work, and how we kind of peel it off and call it something else, and we don’t look at the total project as it is in terms of what did this project cost taxpayers. I will continue my championing of the system to show that we have to do things better. I...

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Committee, I just want to remind Members here, we are dealing with infrastructure, we are dealing with the relocation of the office. Questions here today should be operational in need. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Bromley.