Kevin A. Menicoche

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I just want to speak about a sporting event as well. I was home for the weekend. It was a pleasure to attend the second annual Paul Stipdonk under-12 soccer tournament. I spoke in the House before about him. Paul was an avid soccer coach and teacher in Fort Simpson, and a big thanks goes out to the Stipdonks who allowed the organizers to pay tribute to a great man for a second year.

All ages were involved in the sport of soccer this weekend. There were travellers from Fort Liard, Behchoko, under-12-teams, as well. We spoke in this House last week about mental...

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Just when it comes to the expenditures of extra work on Highway No. 7 or any of the highways around Fort Simpson, I’ve always said that Nahendeh, because we don’t have industry or anything around, that government supplies a large portion of the contracts to the service sector there. So any work that they can do on the highway systems there and extra work on Highway No. 7 is certainly a benefit to the communities and the people that I represent as we have more work for them.

Just as a note, I’d just like to continue to support any investment that we can, and yes...

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I know that with Highway No. 7 there was previously capital amounts, but I would just like to know, in terms of operations and maintenance, what expenditures they have planned for Highway No. 7.

Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker. I’ll be rising in support of this motion this afternoon. I think that the recent incidents at Stanton really highlight the need for safety at the territorial hospital, only because we also have clients and the travelling public from the small communities that go to Stanton. I think Mr. Bromley spoke about how stressful and fearful it can be when there’s an incident that does arise. I also believe that, for whatever reason, there have been many incidents quickly developing, so we as government have to come up with a plan or strategy to increase the type of security...

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I just want to follow up on my Member’s statement on the need to prioritize Highway No. 7 as a priority of this government. Like I said in my Member’s statement, despite all my best efforts over the years, my two words “Highway 7” never gets in any official documents like budget addresses or speeches by Cabinet. Despite that, I’d like to ask the Minister of Transportation about… He indicates that there is investment in Highway No. 7 this year in the capital plan and there is a bit of a strategy, so I would like to ask the Minister, what is the strategy going...

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Now, I was pleased to hear about the investment in our transportation infrastructure and I’d like to invite the Minister to come see that work this spring, and also residents of Wrigley would like to see him, as well, this spring. So I’d like to invite the Minister one more time. He was just there in December, I know, but he’s going to have to come with me and ride the roads. Thank you.

Thank you very much. The Minister mentioned completing the work that’s between the B.C. border and Fort Liard and there were plans for chipsealing. So I would to ask the Minister, will that work be completed this summer, 2015? Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Good morning. I have been beating the drum on this side on my favourite two words: Highway 7. I, like my constituents who use it daily, have rattled on the washboards, sunk in its mud holes, avoided the sinkholes. Actually, I didn’t avoid it. I actually stood in one with Minister Ramsay a couple of years ago, and now at kilometre 169 there’s a dip so big it reminds of a roller coaster.

My constituents value that highway and I believe our government should as well.

Highway No. 7 is part of our National Highway Transportation System. The residents of Fort Liard...

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. This is one of the departments that I deal with extensively because we’ve got almost 25 percent of the roads in the Nahendeh riding and airport infrastructure as well. We had good exchange in the House earlier with the Minister with regard to Highway No. 7, the strategy and what the department has planned to upgrade and reconstruct that road, given the impending Canadian Zinc Mine expansion plans as well as constituents have always told me the importance of Highway No. 7 when it comes to tourism.

I think I have said it in the House before, that Ted Grant actually...

The continued investment in Highway No. 7, because we also know that we’re also talking about a proposed Canadian Zinc mine expansion plan. As well, not to mention the benefits of tourism that travels up Highway No. 7. They’re often delayed or else they’re actually told at the B.C. border, the B.C. Tourism, about the condition of Highway No. 7. So I would like to ask about mitigating the impact of the traffic increase on Highway No. 7.

What other work is being done to let the public know and the tourists know about Highway No. 7 when it comes open for this season’s traffic? Thank you