David Ramsay

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...

Thank you very much, Mr. Aitken. Now I would like to ask committee, what is the wish of committee? Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Ms. Austin.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to follow up on my Member’s statement and ask some questions to the Minister of Transportation. It gets, again, back to the Deh Cho Bridge project. Mr. Speaker, five years ago -- and some of my colleagues here have been talking about that -- five years ago when this project was first publicly vetted through the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation Act, I, as a city councillor, attended committee meetings where the NWT Trucking Association was here; local business groups were in attendance. Mr. Speaker, back then, that Deh Cho Bridge project was estimated to be...

Thank you, committee. Bill 3 is now ready for third reading. I would like to thank you, Mr. Minister, Ms. Austin and Mr. Aitken, for being with us this afternoon. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.

Does committee agree to Bill 3, as a whole?

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Sergeant-at-Arms, if you could escort the additional witness in. Thank you.

Welcome, Ms. Austin, Mr. Aitken, and Mr. Minister. I now open the floor to general comments on Bill 3. Ms. Lee.

Thank you, committee. We are on Bill 3, An Act to Amend the Legal Services Act. Page 1, clause 1.