Michael McLeod

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.

Mr. Chairman, we have not considered using this pot of money to do the geotech work that the Member is referring to. That work has already been done. It has been done for some time, so we wouldn’t propose to do it again unless there was something relative to the issue of climate change and its impacts.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This money is in place at $264,000 until the year 2016-2017. In response to the Member’s question about whether or not we could use this money to do studies on chipseal or dust suppressants in the communities, the type of analysis that he’s referring to has already been done through MACA. They have all the dust suppressant testing for what would work best in the communities. We also, I guess, are doing something in the neighbourhood by testing the new products that are coming out such as Easy Street and we may consider using some of this money to see if that’s something...

Absolutely.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank all the Members for providing us their comments and input and raising issues that are of concern to them.

First of all I want to respond to the comment made that this department is too busy with the Deh Cho Bridge to pay attention to other areas. That’s not correct. We have one full-time position and another half-time position that are dedicated to working on the issues around the Deh Cho Bridge. We have other staff that also have responsibilities, such as Deputy Minister Russell Neudorf and other staff that do it on an interim basis.

Last year we had a capital...

Mr. Chairman, these were the revenues that we received from Canada, all the dollars that we got through Building Canada and other sources through the federal government that have to be amortized and recognized as revenue over the useful life of the asset.

Yes, I do, Mr. Chairman.