Steve Norn

Thank you, Madam Chair. I was looking at page 251 about the amortization. I know that my colleague from Yellowknife asked his questions a little bit. I'm just curious. I looked in every department here in our budget here, and this is quite a bit higher, significantly higher than any other department for this line item. It made me think about: one, why is it so high? I'll continue on with my questions. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I know this is a sticky point in the community of Lutselk'e because once a price is announced, that's the price for the year, but prices for fuel are always fluctuating. I am just wondering how the department determines how they keep a certain price for fuel in the communities and how they determine what rates they are going to be charging and how they arrive at that decision. Thank you.

Yes. I understand, just in terms of what we're working on here, but it's always good to just start conversations and get that out there and find ways. Like I said, I'm always going to look for ways to try to streamline the way we do business and try to find ways for revenue, and that's working. I'll leave that as a comment. I'm kind of excited about this. I'm going to do more research on this, and I'll probably share that information with my colleagues. Thank you.

Marsi cho, Madam Chair. I'll try to break this down to something more regional, and then I'll probably speak to something broader in terms of globally. I'll start by looking at page 244 just as a whole. I circled a few items that were sunsetted, the Arctic Research Foundation, the Tulita Solar Project. Understandably, that was sunsetted for the Tuktoyaktuk highway study, the Northern Transportation Adaptation Initiative. Then looking at this, it just seems like, in terms of research and development outside of Yellowknife, it just kind of all stopped. My first question to the Minister is: I...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can the Minister just explain what the split is between those two categories? Thank you.

In that list, I heard "contracts." Could the Minister just expand on what type of contracts are in this other operations section? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm looking at the Infrastructure stuff on page 254. Specifically, I am looking at other operations. Any time I see "other" or "miscellaneous," it always kind of piques my interest. Can the Minister just expand on what that line item speaks to? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that this committee defer further consideration of the estimates for the Department of Infrastructure at this time. Marsi cho, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you for the response. It sounds like, then, like that page not found where I tried to click on that is there by design, so maybe, it's probably best to get rid of this, then? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you for that response. If I could just get something in writing from the Ministers about the breakdown about the wholesale cost and some of the factors because I know I am going to get that question again in the future, just so I could explain to my constituents what factors into the cost of fuel? Thank you.