Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this is a project that was done in Colville Lake. And as Colville Lake does not have any winter roads we have only a small window of opportunity to get the type of material that is required to build a community assembly hall and a health centre. As a government, whenever there is going to be a project in such a place, we organize a cat-train. This is the only place, I think, left in the Northwest Territories where we organized a cat-train. As the last winter's winter road operation had a very short window of opportunity because of the warm weather, late opening and early closure, this was the only opportunity we had at that time to do it. If we were going to re-tender, then we would have lost the window of opportunity and we would have had to not do the project that year. We delayed that project already and with the phenomenonal amount in the last year of some of the projects, most of the projects, that were approved in this House, that were estimated very low by the Department of Public Works and client departments. A lot of these contracts were going over the estimates. We had to weigh all that and work with the client departments of Health and Social Services and MACA. I was told that they were willing to provide extra to the project and we went ahead with the project. Basically, the window of opportunity to get the material in through cat-train was the deciding factor in this matter. Thank you.
Jim Antoine on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on November 9th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
November 8th, 1998
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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