David Krutko

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My statement is more in line with the airports and the importance of airports to isolated communities with off-road access. I’m talking about Aklavik and the airport that’s presently there and the concerns they have under the existing legislation coming into effect his year. This is regarding the CAR 704 regulation. I think the concern they have is that presently there are times when you do have to have certain types of aircraft, whether dealing with medevacs or bringing in goods and services, and the movement of people.

One of the issues includes the insurance coverage...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With regard to this bill, I was probably the lone wolf in the wilderness on this one because I was yee-yawing back and forth. At the end of the day the original intent of the bill that was brought in in the early 1990s was in regard to the closure of two lodges on Great Bear Lake and some means of protection for the consumer. I think there’s still that type of need in the Northwest Territories from what we’re seeing with the big game outfitters in the area of caribou hunts and polar bears. I think that we have to be cognizant of the fact that we are unique in our...

In the previous capital estimates, I believe it was last year, there were dollars that were supposed to be allocated to a fire tower in my riding with regard to the Schiltee fire tower in Fort McPherson or outside of Fort McPherson. The money was reprofiled and expended in the South Slave region. I’d like to ask the department, at that time I had a commitment from the Minister that those dollars were going to be eventually reprofiled and spent on what it was supposed to be spent on in Fort McPherson, or Schiltee Rock as it’s better known. The commitment has already been made in this House, so...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With regard to forest management, one of the things that the communities I represent is that forestry is a very important element to the community’s ability and sustainability to use wood heat and using wood as a product for building cabins. To use those products, we have wood misers in all the communities I represent. They are fully utilized through different programs to use that type of product and ensuring that there are workshops in the different communities where different people come from southern Canada who are experts in the field of different uses of wood...

Minister of Public Works, do you have anything to add?

I’m talking about the overall investment summary, so I think it falls within this department. It’s okay. It can be answered here, because it is dealing with the total amount.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With regard to my Member’s statement, I know I’ve had this discussion with the Minister and he has heard it from the people in the Mackenzie Delta. It was an issue at the Gwich’in Assembly. I’d like to ask the Minister if there is a possibility of ensuring that we have a realistic starting time for ferry operations in the Inuvik region, say 8:00. Right now it runs from 9:30 until 12:30 in the evening. Is there a possibility of moving that clock back to start at 8:00 in the morning and concluding ferry operations, say, at 11:30?

Ms. Lee.

Mr. Abernethy.

I just have a question for the Minister, maybe she can provide the information. Can you give me the information on how many northern aboriginal people are working in the health care system when it comes to long-term care facilities in the Northwest Territories and what are those statistics, since you keep saying that we have not been able to fill all these jobs? How many long-term Northerners and aboriginal caregivers do we have in the long-term care facilities in the Northwest Territories to date? Broken down by each community or facility.