Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, committee. We will defer page 325 until after consideration of activity detail. I’d like to turn your attention to page 326, revenue summary, information item. Any questions? Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. For that we’ll go to Deputy Minister Williams.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister McLeod.

Thank you. We will commence after a short recess.

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Committee, page 370, public safety, grants, contributions and transfers, total contributions, $400,000. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. I’ll allow Minister McLeod to comment.

Thank you. I’m disappointed that the Minister would use scare tactics such as let’s just raise the price of tickets for passengers, let’s raise the prices for the airlines themselves. This is preposterous. These scare tactics are just being used to camouflage what I consider poor management, bottom line. We as a government have a responsibility to be better managers and not use scare tactics.

Can the Minister indicate to the House in the wake of almost every other airport of similar volume and size in Canada developing independent authorities, why is the Yellowknife Airport being held back for...

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. We’re just going to circulate this motion. One second.

Committee, the motion is on the floor and the motion is in order. To the motion. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Ladies, thank you for joining us here today. Committee, we’ll open up Bill 38 with general comments. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Clearly, there’s a lot of foolishness in all the delaying and deferring that the Department of Transportation has undertaken in the last 20 years on this subject. Again, the Minister made reference to a report. He claims that was on March of 2014. A report that has never been tabled in this House, a report that is buried in the website of the Department of Transportation to which I haven’t been able to find, but I did get a copy from the department.

We also heard on February 20, 2014, the Minister saying, “We’ve hired a consultant to specifically look at these for...