Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. We’ll go to Ms. Young.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to touch base from what we heard yesterday in Committee of the Whole and what the Transportation Minister, Mr. David Ramsay, said during his opening budget comments on the northern portion of the Mackenzie Valley Highway system.

Admittedly, the Minister clearly has indicated that we have reached what he referred to as an important crossroad on this project. For the record, I agree. According to the Minister, the formalities of the environmental approval is imminent for the project to go forward, and with 85 percent of the design of the highway complete, the...

I believe my notes indicate that we are anticipating to see the completion of that On Course Marine Strategy in the 2012-2013 budget. It’s interesting to see that it is still not completed, yet we do have a lot of changes in our marine vessels, especially with the Merv Hardie. With that said, we service, currently, four river crossings with ferries, and with the changes that we’re seeing with the Deh Cho Bridge finally in active services and the Merv Hardie possibly being re-allocated to a future port of call, is there any cost recovery with any of our fleet that may be coming off the books in...

Thank you, Mr. Schauerte. Ms. Bisaro, your time is up but I have no one else on the list. Would you like to continue?

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. For that we’ll go to Mr. McLeod.

Maybe I could get a bit more of an explanation from the deputy minister or the Minister. In his reply is “making this work.” Can he maybe elaborate on that last comment?

Welcome back, committee. Committee, we’re on Municipal and Community Affairs, 6-7, we’re going to defer the operations expenditure summary to the end. So I’ll ask people to turn their pages to 6-8, Municipal and Community Affairs, information item, infrastructure investment summary. Any questions?

Committee, we are on 6-13, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, directorate, operations expenditure summary, $4.395 million.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to lead into what was mentioned earlier today. I believe the deputy minister here indicated that with federal Bill C-45 that there tends to be, and I don’t remember the exact wording, making things easier. Can I get maybe the Minister or deputy minister to elaborate on what effects it will have on our marine programs with imminent changes to federal regulations?