Tom Beaulieu

I will move on to this section. Mr. Chair, the money that is allocated in the winter road is only to maintain the existing winter roads right now? Is there any money in there to possibly build new winter roads? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That is clear to me. Thank you. That is all I have.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just to get it cleared up in my own mind, on page 245, we have the Community Access Program that we just exchanged on, the $1.5 million, and then, for local roads, it is also called CAP, and it provides a contribution. I am wondering if these are two different pots of money, or if this is the same pot of money. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have nothing further on this page.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I wonder if the Minister could advise me, if the subscribing of the budget from the communities exceeds the money that is in the budget, if the department or the Minister would be willing to continue to take in applications for the program and fund it internally from elsewhere in the budget. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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...