Michael McLeod

This land that the Member’s referring to is important to the future development of the airport.

Mr. Chairman, as we move forward and develop partnerships and sign MOUs with different aboriginal governments, different companies and different communities, we continually learn best practices. This is no different from the Deh Cho Bridge. The Deh Cho Bridge is a P3 project that had no policy, as has been mentioned before. It has since been drafted through Finance, I believe, and I’m sure as we take stock upon completion of this project, we will look at where we could have done better and learn from that. Thank you.

It reflects all the investments that the federal government made on the capital projects.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have with me, on my right, Mr. Russell Neudorf, who is deputy minister of Transportation. I also have, on my left, Daniel Auger, the assistant deputy minister.

The Member’s correct; there is an increase as a result of increased utility costs. That’s reflected in here.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, I do have some opening comments.

This budget proposes increases of $4.6 million to cover forced growth and $1.8 million for strategic initiatives. It also includes two major structural changes to the department’s operations expenditures in the areas of amortization and utility and building maintenance budgets. This year the department has, on the advice of the Auditor General’s office, adjusted the way it accounts for the amortization of assets. This change realizes a 5 percent or $5 million increase to the department’s budget for amortization of capital assets...

Mr. Chairman, these are recovery of costs incurred by NAV Canada for their share of electrical, heating, janitorial, water, and ATB maintenance.

It should be obvious. It’s a one-year budget, so it’s one year.

Mr. Chairman, the $95,000 is for maintenance.

A little bit of a concern. Some of this information is in the supp. The project budget is now $7.6 million for the bypass road in Yellowknife.