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Debates of , 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 18)

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Minister McLeod.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 18)

Thank you, Mr. Williams. Mr. Hawkins, one last supplemental.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 18)

I think the question is not hypothetical. The question is whether or not the $299 million is including this $12 million. Again, this was opened up in your statement yesterday in the Minister’s own words.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 18)

A final question I have here, and just so that I’m perfectly clear on all the regulatory changes that we’re going to be faced here in the GNWT, is there any increase in our operating costs to this department with respect to marine activity?

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 18)

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Minister McLeod.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 18)

Thanks, Ms. Bisaro. Will the Minister want to reply?

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 18)

Where I’m kind of going with this is that I believe it was, as the Minister put it, an initiative that was overdue in terms of the reviewing of airport fees. Does the current process allow that these fees are being reviewed on a more frequent basis? Is there a provision or a proviso within the review program that will not allow this to lapse, that we actually are keeping up with either inflation or use of our facilities?

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 18)

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Mr. Schauerte.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 18)

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. We’ll go to Minister McLeod.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 18)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today as this is formally the second time we have heard from the Department of Transportation on a shared cost estimate proposal with the federal government on the northern portion of the Mackenzie Valley Highway system. It appears, once again, that we have been given a glass-half-empty program that appears now to have been formally fast-tracked to the feds for review.

I have said on more than one occasion in this House that I support this project only if the math was sound and a full risk matrix was on the table. It is clear that the project glass is, again, half...