Wally Schumann

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have no immediate plans to widen that section there. We will continue to monitor it and have discussions with whoever need be with concerns moving forward. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Earlier in the life of this Assembly, we had to sit down with the contractor and review the progress made on the Tuk to Inuvik Highway, it remains on budget at $299 million. But we have had to change a partial scope of the work on a section of the highway to help assist with moving the project along. We have changed the height of the embankment in certain areas where engineering have said it is possible and just moved things around.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe the last couple of years the Community Access Program has been -- our application base by $1.5 million. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll let Deputy Minister Neudorf answer that.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll just take it as a comment, thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have already had ongoing consultation and extensive discussions with Ecology North on the use of this road and with the city about the uses of it. Anyone that wants to come talk to us about their concerns about this section of highway, we would gladly sit down and discuss that with them as well. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

In terms of the impact on the herd on the NWT side of the border, we acknowledge that the hardships have been taken on to the communities. We are working with the communities on a plan with the Bathurst herd. The Member knows that. This is a very serious matter.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. When there's an emergency in any of the communities we'll call out all services that need to be to facilitate cleaning the runways so the emergency can be responded to. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The highway patrol patrols commercial traffic only, and we still continue to do that on a regular basis. As for public speeding and other safety issues, that's an RCMP logistic issue, so that's something that the Member would have to take up with the RCMP. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We are working on it and hopefully we'll be able to present it to the Members later this summer. Thank you, Mr. Chair.