Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a return to a question asked by Mr. Pudluk with respect to the classification of drivers' licences.
On Tuesday, February 23, the honourable Member for High Arctic reported a problem his constituents were having in applying for class three drivers' licences and receiving class five licences instead. I told Mr. Pudluk that I would look into the problem for him and report back to the House.
The registrar of motor vehicles has reviewed all the class five licences issued over the past six months in the communities of Arctic Bay, Grise Fiord, Nanisivik and Resolute Bay. Over this period, 18 class five and no class three licences were issued in these communities. Four of the class five licences were issued to new drivers and the remaining 14 were licence transfers from jurisdictions outside the Northwest Territories. The registrar could find no instances of converting an application for a class three licence to a class five instead.
The motor vehicles division does change class three applications to class five licences under three circumstances. The application may have been sent to Yellowknife without proof of the practical road test portion of the driving examination. The class three licence requires medical certification and this may not have been included with the application. In some instances, the holder of a class five licence may be issued a restricted class three licence. A condition is added to the back of a class five licence which allows the driver -- this is ridiculous -- to operate a class three single unit truck within the Northwest Territories. Who wrote this?
To the registrar's knowledge, none of these circumstances have occurred in the Member's constituency over the past six months.
If Mr. Pudluk could give me more detail about a particular case, I would be only too pleased to have the department staff look into it for him. Thank you.