Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. We’ll now move on to general comments. Just by way of process here, folks, I believe the wish of the committee is Members will make general comments, not including questions that they expect the Minister to answer. We will save the questions for the detail and we will ask the Minister to hold his response to the general comments until the end until everyone has provided general comments. Agreed?

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Does committee agree?

I’ll call the committee back to order. We are continuing on with our review of the main estimates and the department we have up next is Department of Environment and Natural Resources. I’d like to ask Minister Miltenberger if he’d like to provide opening comments to his department.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was going to say I don’t know if I can support this motion because it just makes too much sense. This wouldn’t be our way of doing things. But, you know, Ms. Bisaro just made a comment to me. I mean, even if we went out and borrowed the money to do this, it would make sense.

When we were in committee one day, Mr. Yakeleya drew me a picture. I said, draw me a picture, and he drew a picture of all of our resources here in the Northwest Territories which get piped to a refinery in southern Canada, then get brought back, then get put into a big holding tank and then...

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Does committee agree?

Thank you very much, Mr. Blake. General comments. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you for that lovely speech. I’m all for growing the economy outside of Yellowknife, as everybody knows. But I’d like to ask the Minister, how did the traffic projections for this projected road, this planned road, compare with other regions and other all-weather roads throughout the Northwest Territories. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Any further general comments? Mr. Hawkins.

I would like to ask the Minister if he could give us an approximate cost of what it cost to maintain the 2,200 kilometres we currently have of all-weather road in the Northwest Territories, a ballpark figure. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. General comments. Next I have Mr. Dolynny.