Wally Schumann

Hay River South

Statements in Debates

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 22)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Department of Infrastructure prepared a 10-point action plan to address the recommendations made by the Auditor General's report and has made the commitment to having that action plan operational by May 31st of 2018. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 22)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, this is the section that has the money allocated for that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 22)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On page 246, that is where we record the grants to the community, and the number of 1,480 is what we give the community, but there are also incremental costs there for travel and some other offset costs that raise it to $1.5 million. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 22)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, we are not planning on going over the accumulated surplus. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 22)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On my left is Vince McCormick, Director of Corporate Services, Infrastructure, on my right is Deputy Minister Paul Guy, and on my far right is Assistant Deputy Minister, Regional Operations and Infrastructure, Jayleen Robertson.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 22)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I have stated in the House, the road meets Transport Canada regulations right now, but in the springtime, we are going to be assessing what we are doing for driver comfort and be adding signage based on that going forward; so there will be some additional signage put up this coming spring. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 22)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's the way the title is, but that is actually the CAP program. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 22)

The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 22)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Well, I can probably reassure the Member the money's probably not going to be there because of the pressure on the system.

I'd love to see the Mackenzie Valley road all the way from Wrigley to Tsiigehtchic myself. This has been an ongoing project since the 1970s. I think we're possibly, possibly, closer than ever to maybe securing some funding from the federal government on this initiative through the National Trades and Corridor fund. Hopefully, we're going to hear on that by the beginning of April on the first $2 billion of that ask. Our application is incremental on six...

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 22)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess one of the things around this program is we get oversubscribed with these projects. We know quite in advance how much money has been asked for. As things move forward, for some reason or not, some of these communities don't come forward after they get their projects approved, so we tend to re-evaluate and move some projects up the list if some people don't get their project to the table and done in the time that they are allotted. Thank you, Mr. Chair.