David Krutko

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Anything else, Mr. Yakeleya? Economic diversification and business support, operations expenditure summary, activity summary, $20.599 million. Agreed?

Minister of ITI.

Mr. Speaker, another project that comes to mind is the Inuvik Hospital which started off at $24 million and after all is said and done, the completed cost was $45.5 million. Again, double the cost.

Marine, page 11-25, activity summary, operations expenditure summary, $7.808 million. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I, too, have similar issues, but not dealing with mushrooms, I’m talking more of natural products that people use for thousands of years where they make dry meat and dry fish. They basically pick berries in the fall time, they freeze it, keep it for the winter, it gets them through the whole season. Yet those traditional activities still go on in all our communities and there is a commercial market, but most if it is mostly through trade and barter and so if you want dry fish you go and see so and so, if you want dry meat you go see so and so. Through our local economies...

Okay. On highways, operations expenditure summary, activity summary, $54.220 million.

I noted that these projects seem to be one-offs, where we’re starting one here and one there. Do we have a long-term projected plan of how we’re going to look at expanding these systems in other communities? I know that the community of Tsiigehtchic has raised this at the Beaufort leaders’ meeting, because they have a fire hall right next to the power plant. It came up at the Beaufort leaders’ meeting why they can’t get residual heat from the power plant to heat the fire hall, which is the next building over. Right now it’s costing them a lot of money to heat the facility. The power plant’s...

Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just following up on what I was saying earlier that there are already people in the business of providing residual heat in the communities, there is a company that’s established with the Gwich’in Development Corporation called Aadrii Energy, which is a joint venture between the Gwich’in Development Corporation and the Northwest Territories Power Corporation, who provides residual heat in Fort McPherson. They’ve put some $3 million or $4 million into this company and I’d just like to ask the Minister, I note that you have Inuvik listed in the suggested projects for...