David Krutko

Mr. Chair, can the Minister tell me: where does the Financial Management Board Secretariat presently work in Inuvik?

Well, if he’s committed to moving on this project, that’s what I want to hear.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d like to ask the Minister of Transportation if he can give me an update in regard to the Building Canada Fund and how community projects can be added to that fund. I know of previous commitments from previous Ministers to looking at the Aklavik access road to the gravel source. I know there was a meeting last week. I’m wondering about the possibility of getting an update on what the status of that is. What type of a timeframe are we looking at to basically develop a proposal, submit it and see if we can access the funds from the Building Canada Fund to do that project...

Mr. Chairman, it worries me, hearing from the Minister of Public Works and Services about all the concerns in regard to security, accessibility, the health of the buildings and whatnot. Just on those arguments alone it tells me that departments are going to be finding excuses to move out of these leases. Yet you supposedly assure us that will not happen. We’ve already seen it happen in regard to the Department of Environment by moving out of a facility out to Shell Lake, converting the buildings out there into office space. I bet you a dollar to a doughnut that the Department of Environment...

I know that within the last two years there were plans in place to move this project ahead and do it in different phases, that you were going to do a certain aspect of construction in regard to the mechanical side of the building, another phase looking at the shop and whatnot, so that you can still functionally use the facility.

But at some point you’re going to have to look at an alternative space. That plan was already in place. It was already contemplated to move on that. There was a lot of planning and research in regard to how we were going to construct this facility in different phases...

Just as long as we’re kept in the loop about exactly where these expenditures are and you keep the committee and Members up to date. I’ll leave it at that.

I think this government does have to do a better job of maintenance and dealing with the hazards that are put in front of our travelling public. I think we do have to realize that we have to take some responsibility for that. In cost reduction efforts and whatnot we sometimes sort of forget that public safety is supposed to be paramount. But when you start having three or four people taking buckets of gravel and filling in potholes on a highway because the government is trying to think they’re going to save money, to me that’s not proper maintenance, especially with the condition of the...

I move to report progress.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’d like to know if I can get that information, please.

This information that we’re going on was provided to committee, and I think that it’s good that we can get updated information — information that is accurate in regard to dollars that have been lapsed and carried forward. It’d be good if we can keep track of these expenditures, if they are not being expended that they’re carried forward. I’d just like to ask if we can get the most current information in regard to this project and also have a way of tracking the expenditures of this specific project.