Tom Beaulieu

Thank you. I was basically along the same line of questioning as Mr. O'Reilly. One area that I am looking for clarification: the witness indicated that they used some of that $2.7 million accumulated surplus to pay down old assets or buy new assets. Aside from that, are the purchase of all of the assets to date in capital assets and then they are under the accumulated debt for the GNWT as a whole? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask the Minister, on the Community Access Program, if the Minister could give me an indication if this program was fully utilized in 2017-2018. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. Just so it's clear in my mind, so $55 million is just a limit. That's good. The $37 million is taken and that's the sale, and then the expenditures and so on. This has nothing to do with any accumulation of debt whatsoever. Is that correct? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I too rise to support the motion here today. I have been in the Assembly for three terms, and I know that, in each term, we have had only two women as MLAs. I think that the women in this Legislative Assembly for all the three terms that I have served in the House have brought a perspective that maybe would be missing if there were no women in the House. I find that that is an important perspective, and, as the motion indicates, developing legislation without the perspective of women would be difficult and we would not be able to develop a full legislation...

Thank you. I think that's good. I am happy if the department agrees to look at it this year, with the understanding that there is only money in there to maintain the existing winter roads. I understand that this is an ask maybe that is kind of out of the blue, but I know that we have talked about it before. I think I have actually talked to Minister Schumann about this a few years back, a couple years ago. When there was a possibility of trying to get some equipment into or materials in for the renovation of the Lutselk'e Dene School, I thought that would be an opportunity and it would be...

Mr. Chairman, the budget has not changed from 2016-2017, but we have eliminated a long winter road and that from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk, so does this mean that they are going to decrease the budget at some point to make up for that, or is it that this budget will now go into a surplus with the elimination of the one winter road? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, my question is in the previous one about CAP and local roads. I had in my mind to ask about the program where the department provides docks in the communities, but I am not really sure where that budget item sits, so I would ask the question here, in regional operations, if they have money set aside, aside from the CAP funding, if there is other money set aside for the dock program. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. On page 245, we have a budget for CAP. On page 246, we have a contribution. Is this page the detail of the previous page? Mr. Chair, that is my question.

Sorry, Mr. Chairman. I thought that page 246 was a different task, but I see that it is just a different section. I have a question on the next page. On the local community roads, I am wondering if the Minister could briefly describe that program to me, that contribution. How does the contribution work? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I was including the extra $500,000. In the response earlier, then, does that mean that was fully subscribed to the $1 million as opposed to the $1.5 million? Thank you, Mr. Chair.