Michael Miltenberger

Thank you, Madam Chair. It is truly a hypothetical question. The fact of what we know is we have $299 million: $200 million just confirmed from the federal government and $99 million out of our own pockets. We have some costs already of $12 million.

We’ve given every commitment we can possibly give at this juncture about managing the project. We have a contingency fund. We’re going to do all the work up front to be ready for construction this coming fall. So it’s on that basis that we’re proceeding. Otherwise, if we took the approach suggested by the Member, we could potentially paralyze...

Thank you. What the process will be is the political commitment has been made for the $200 million. Mr. Neudorf and his officials will be working with his counterparts in the federal government to work out the details and the funding agreement that will allow that money to flow, and we anticipate in the next two months that would be concluded and the money would start to flow into the project. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following two documents, entitled Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2012-2013, and Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2013-2014. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. There is no set ratio. What is set is that there’s a project that we’re proposing to build from Tuk to Inuvik over challenging terrain. As we go forward, we identify the risks and we mitigate them. The $299 million and the contingency have given us room to capture that and, we believe, allow us to proceed with the project and bring it in on budget. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate the Member’s comments and support for the work we’re doing in terms of building the territory. Moving south to north is one that people have been dreaming about, that are landlocked, of an opportunity to have road access that many of us in the southern part of the territory take for granted and is a very fundamental type of service. Far from being a sinkhole, it’s a critical, beautiful part of the Northwest Territories and deserves the same type of attempts and basic service that the southern territory takes for granted.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe the number is $40 million over the life of the project.

The critical issue is the need to do a better job in terms of educating people about responsible drinking or not drinking at all and pregnant mothers not drinking. We need to have that discussion about the best way forward. He has pulled a number out of the air, a safe 10 percent is what his comment was. I am saying let’s agree that that’s a discussion that needs to be had and let’s see what we collectively can come up with for the next business planning process about the best way forward, and not forgetting the fact that we want to continue to stay coordinated and work very closely with...

Thank you, Madam Chair. First, if I may, before I turn it over to Mr. Neudorf, the EIRB website contains all the information that the Member said was lacking from the Transportation website. The Transportation website had a link to the EIRB. We made a commitment to providing a plain language summary of the risk matrix. We’ve done that. We were asked a couple of hours ago. We’ve had staff working hard to get that done. That will be tabled tomorrow. The committee has it before them in committee so we could have this fulsome discussion. In regard to the amount of high risk issues, I’ll ask Mr...

I’d just note the Member’s sharing of his experience in terms of projects and I look forward to his questions later.

No, they’re already here.