Jane Groenewegen

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole back to order. The document before you today, committee members, that we will be dealing with is Tabled Document 83-17(3), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2012-2013. I would like to ask the Minister if he would like to make opening comments. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Education, Culture and Employment, capital investment expenditures, education and culture, not previously authorized, negative $3.935 million, total department, negative $3.935 million. Agreed?

Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 83-17(3), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2012-2013, and would like to report progress with one motion being adopted, and that consideration of Tabled Document 83-17(3) is concluded, and that the House concur in those estimates and that an appropriation bill to be based thereon be introduced without delay. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Dolynny.

I like that answer a little bit better, because that was my understanding when we’ve been approving these funds for the geotechnical and costing and all these things we’ve been doing. We understood that as we were approving these dollars, that $2 million, around $2 million a hit, that’s what we thought we were doing. We thought this was kind of exploratory and that if it didn’t go ahead at this time, that was still valuable information that could be used at some time in the future.

The Minister is telling us that, in fact, there are many hurdles and many questions to be answered prior to this...

Question is being called.

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What is the wish of committee? Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just in follow-up, I thought of another question. I gave Mr. Ramsay quite a platform there to make his speech about his much anticipated road from Inuvik to Tuk, when I said what makes this borrowing money worthy, this particular project. A lot of the reasoning he gave could be applied to, literally, you could take and you could transpose that whole argument to Wrigley to Norman Wells. You could say the same thing. We’ve got so much activity going on in the Sahtu in the oil and gas. I mean, that’s part of the Mackenzie Highway too. It just happens to be the more...

Agreed, thank you. I would like to thank Minister Miltenberger and the witnesses for their participation here today. Mr. Sergeant-at-Arms, if you could escort the witnesses out of the Chamber, please.

Mr. Menicoche.