David Ramsay
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Mahsi, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Lafferty.
Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Minister.
Thank you, committee. I would now like to ask the Minister responsible for Bill 3, the honourable Minister Bell to introduce the bill, please. Mr. Bell.
Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Minister.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’d like to get that figure of $4 million, and I guess it’s in Hansard now, so I’m not sure if it’s written in stone anywhere but that would be a good place to start, and I don’t think it should go over that, Mr. Speaker. I’d also like to ask a question to the Minister about risk. Should the toll revenue decrease $1 million a year five years from now, who’s going to absorb that $1 million in risk, Mr. Speaker? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. I didn’t hear a question there. I am going to move to the next general comment. Mr. Braden.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’d like to continue with a line of questioning for the Minister of Transportation. Again it’s on the Deh Cho Bridge project and I’d like to certainly sign up to negotiate with this government. I mean, here the Minister talks about negotiations going on and these guys can’t even put a top level on what they’re willing to spend; what the tolls are going to be. It’s an open-ended negotiation. I think that’s what I haven’t heard from the government is what is the ceiling? Where are we going to go to? What are we prepared to spend? What are we willing...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Bill 1, An Act to Amend the Partnership Act; Bill 2, An Act to Amend the Condominium Act; and Bill 3, An Act to Amend the Legal Services Act, and would like to report that Bills 1, 2 and 3 are ready for third reading. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.
Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Minister.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would hazard to guess that tolls will be in excess of $6. I mean it doesn’t take a mathematician to figure that out. With the project in excess of $130 million, the tolls are obviously going to have to be over $6. It was obvious from yesterday’s discussion that the government isn’t going to wait for the federal government to come in with capital dollars to put into this project. It is obvious. I would like to ask the Minister of Transportation, has the government drawn a line in the sand where it can say too much is too much? Be that either on...