I’ll ask some questions of the Minister of Transportation, given the sensitivity on this question of the Deh Cho Bridge.
I would like to ask the Minister of Transportation: how much money has the Department of Transportation spent in terms of contractors and consultants on the Deh Cho Bridge project over the last five years?
Mr. Speaker, I would have to check with my department for the exact details in terms of the contribution of the department, as has been asked by the Member on this specific topic here.
Mr. Speaker, I can advise the Minister that it is well over a million dollars that we have spent on consultants and contractors to work on the file of the Deh Cho Bridge project.
I am wondering if the Minister can supply the House with the reason why the Government of the Northwest Territories would bear the full cost of consultants and contractors looking at the Deh Cho Bridge project when the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation should be responsible for that level of work.
Mr. Speaker, as I stated earlier, I’ll have to look at this and go back to my department to see what other departments were involved, where the work was done, and get back to the Member. I would be happy to sit down with the Member and go through with a fine-toothed comb in terms of the numbers.
Mr. Speaker, one question that hasn’t been answered in all of this is how much staff time the Department of Transportation has put into the Deh Cho Bridge project at the expense of other projects around the Territory.
I’d like to ask the Minister to commit to getting this House a detailed analysis of how much staff time has been spent on the Deh Cho Bridge project.
Mr. Speaker, I will get that detail and bring it back to the House.
Before I go on to the next Member, the original line of questioning was with Mr. Bromley, who had two supplementary questions left. Do you have further supplementaries, Mr. Bromley?
No further supplementaries.
Thank you, Mr. Bromley. The honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, Mr. Krutko.
