Jane Groenewegen

Highways, active positions, information item on page 467.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Is committee agreed?

Page 462, corporate services, grants, contributions and transfers, contributions, $12,000.

Okay. Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Airports, operations expenditure summary, $27.811 million. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Highways, operations expenditure summary, $66.420 million.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is an interesting topic and certainly I, like my colleagues, am very concerned for the safety of our workplaces in hospitals and care facilities and all facilities in the Northwest Territories. Safety in the workplace has to be a paramount concern.

Some other Members have referred to many incidents and I don’t know if that would be a fair characterization because I don’t know the numbers of incidents involved. I think back to just a few weeks ago when there was an incident on Parliament Hill and the good members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, right after that...

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Beaulieu.

Agreed. Transportation, airports, operations expenditure summary, $27.811 million. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Ms. Bisaro, your time has expired. I‘m going to next go to Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s interesting that I’m going on the heels of such a happy report from the Minister of ITI, because today it’s Monday. I don’t know if I’m in a Monday mood or what, but I want to talk about Hay River. Hay River, Hay River, the Hub of the North.

My question to this government is: Who cares about Hay River, the second largest community in the Northwest Territories? People say things like, I like Hay River, I like coming to Hay River, but that’s not going to cut it. That’s not going to be good enough. They say Hay River is resilient, they’ll figure it out. I’m tired of...