Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If the Minister could tell us, with the new road planning studies, what roads are they looking at?
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Seamus Henry Yellowknife South
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Mr. Minister.
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. What we plan to do is two studies looking at the Mackenzie resupply transportation system. Just looking at a study to cost out the
various alternatives to resupplying the communities in the western Arctic. We are also doing a study by the town of Inuvik, in the hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, to study a possible all-weather route between the two communities. Thank you.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Total region, $737,000. Agreed?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Building and works, Fort Smith region. Total region. I have Mr. Miltenberger.
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Mr. Chairman, I would just like to ask the Minister if he could identify where the two large projects for paving are being done, so that we can make it very clear that the roads to Fort Smith are not all paved with gold.
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, when we talk about the Fort Smith region, we talk about this whole part of the north including the road to Yellowknife. The section that we are talking about here is Highway No. 3, kilometres 0 to kilometre 154. The work involves the last section of the highway left to be reconstructed. It is about 18 kilometres. This is the section midway between Fort Providence and Rae-Edzo. That should do that. The other section picks up where it left off at Highway No. 3, kilometre 154 goes on to kilometre 243. There is 12 kilometres again. The section right over this side of the previous one. Once we conclude building these two, it is going to be about 30 kilometres total. That should finish off the highway reconstruction between Providence and Rae-Edzo.
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Edward Picco Iqaluit
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I have a couple of questions in this area. The first one would be can the Minister tell me if the infrastructure development, as proposed in the main estimates, is cost-shared between this government and the federal government under the Roads and Maintenance Infrastructure Program of the federal government?
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. No, it is not.
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Edward Picco Iqaluit
Mr. Chairman, I see Highway 3(a) kilometre and Highway 3(c) kilometre. Is that three kilometres, or is that one kilometre worth of road for $4 million? Is that one kilometre for $3.410 million? Is it 30 kilometres? What is it?
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Mr. Chairman, in the main estimate books, the Highway No. 3 kilometre 0 to 154 for $4,541,000, that should be 18 kilometres of highway for that amount. For the other, the third one down, Highway 3 (b) kilometre 154 to 243 at $3,410,000, that is approximately 12 kilometres of road. Thank you.
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Vince Steen Nunakput
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, my question is in regards to the employment opportunities for equipment operators on these projects. I wonder if the Minister can advise me if these contractors are required to recruit territorial-wide?
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. The Honourable Minister for Transportation. Mr. Antoine.
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, all these contracts are under the BIP, the Business Incentive Policy. As a result, there is a lot of northern preference worked into the public tender process. In some cases, there are contractors out there that have a southern component. If they meet the BIP requirements to the public tender process, what we have been doing is encouraging them to use northern local first and northern as much as possible. A lot of them have been complying by it more and more over the years. I think that we are going to see a steady move towards that by all the contractors in the north. We are certainly concerned about it ourselves. The department has been instructed to make sure that they comply by northern preference. Thank you.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Fort Smith region. The honourable Member for Nunakput, Mr. Steen.
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Vince Steen Nunakput
Mr. Chairman, I take it then that the public can expect to see advertisements in the papers when these contractors are looking for equipment operators, and whatever, for these projects. There will be advertisements in the paper, so that people could respond to these advertisements for work opportunities.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. The Honourable Minister for Transportation, Mr. Antoine.
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, once contracts are let out, whoever is successful in doing the work, the only thing that we can do is that we can continue to try to encourage them to hire northern and local people as much as possible. The honourable Member's question is that are we going to see an ad in the paper. I think that once we let a contract go to a contractor, then it is really up to the contractor to acquire the necessary type of people that it needs. Perhaps, if they want to go to the newspaper, I guess they go to the newspaper. All we could do is to encourage them and try to keep a close eye on how they go about doing their work. Thank you.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Fort Smith region. Mr. Steen.