...the atmospheric environmental service currently operates the CARS program in Cape Dorset, Clyde River and Pond Inlet, and it is, at the present time, on a 24-hour, seven days a week service. It's funded by Transport Canada. We were told several months ago that Transport Canada intended to discontinue the 24-hour, seven days a week service, and we are going to reduce it to five days a week, 24 hours a day; in other words, an eight hour day. I discussed this matter with the honourable Doug Young, who is the Minister of Transportation, in Ottawa two weeks ago and asked him if he was prepared to reconsider or look for an appropriate compromise. Our compromise was to ask if he would consider 70 hours a week and the reduction to be phased in over a period of time. I was told just a short time ago that the only concession we have so far is in Clyde River. Transport Canada has agreed to 65 hours a week over a seven day period. That is the latest I have with respect to this, Madam Speaker.
John Todd on Question 424-12(5): Minister's Knowledge Of The Closure Of Weather Reporting Stations
In the Legislative Assembly on March 30th, 1994. See this statement in context.
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Question 424-12(5): Minister's Knowledge Of The Closure Of Weather Reporting Stations
Item 5: Oral Questions
March 29th, 1994
Page 942
John Todd Keewatin Central
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