Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The standing committee on finance, when we reviewed Transportation, generally found some areas of concern in terms of standards. When we speak of standards, we are talking about particularly those standards aimed at perhaps what is typically done in the South, and we are not convinced that it is always necessary to achieve those standards when doing work in the North. I guess specifically what led to this was the cost of the upgrade of the highway in Yellowknife between downtown and the airport. I do not think there was much support on the committee for the level of upgrading that is planned for that strip, although this was last year's budget, and the amount of money that was spent doing the same sort of thing to part of the road up in Inuvik -- the Dempster Highway in Inuvik. Because of that we are wondering whether or not it really made a lot of sense to spend as much money as we did there when there are so many more important things that we thought the money could be spent on. We thought that the department should perhaps re-evaluate its standards. Motion
That Transportation Department Re-Evaluate Its Standards To What Is Affordable, Carried
Therefore, Mr. Chairman, I would like to move that the committee recommends that the Department of Transportation re-evaluate its standards to ensure they are reasonable in light of what this government can afford.