Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Minister Ramsay.

All those abstaining, please stand. There are none. The results of the recorded vote on the motion: in favour, two; opposed, 15; abstentions, zero. The motion is defeated.

---Defeated

We are going back to page 7, supplemental appropriations, infrastructure expenditures, highways, not previously authorized, $2.5 million.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I thank the Member for Yellowknife Centre for giving a brief overview. I want to kind of take that and elaborate it to a certain level here. The concept of the Tuk-Inuvik road here has become more political and emotional in nature. Sometimes we need to look at the rationale in moving forward. The benefits of the people of the Northwest Territories seem to not really have been identified adequately, I think, in terms of a lot of things we talk about cost-benefit analysis, as the Member indicated.

I want to make a point to note that the supplemental here is strictly for...

Thank you, Mr. Aumond. Ms. Bisaro.

Highways, not previously authorized, $2.5 million. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. The motion is on the floor. The Member has requested a recorded vote. All those in favour, please stand.

Again I do appreciate what the Minister is trying to portray here. The bottom line is that we still are dealing with missing test results. I did get some reassurances from the Minister of MACA regarding this information coming forward in the House. We are waiting for that information to come forward, but in the interim, I guess, where are we getting our baseline information as we prepare for this plan?

We are talking about a very futuristic plan about testing the water up and down the river, but as of today we have missing test results. I am asking the Minister of ENR when can we see or get...

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Miltenberger.

Department total, Public Works and Services, capital investment expenditures, not previously authorized, negative $400,000.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. To the motion. Mr. Moses.