Thank you. Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Ootes.
Debates of Feb. 18th, 1998
Topics
Further Return To Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Supplementary To Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Could the Minister tell us, did that office space plan change after that date or was that adhered to from there on? Thank you.
Supplementary To Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Mr. Antoine.
Further Return To Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you. The Yellowknife office plan in its earlier planning stage had a number of options. As a result of the original signed document on July 31st, and then a couple of weeks later, in August the Cabinet then looked at this document at the FMB Cabinet meeting and decided to go with one of the options. Since that time, since the option was chosen, there was further work done on it and there were some changes from that first document until it was approved last month in January 1998, so there were some changes. Thank you.
Further Return To Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you. Oral questions. Final supplementary, Mr. Ootes.
Supplementary To Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. If there were options on there, did it also contain information with respect to potential imminent changes that could take place on that options paper?
Supplementary To Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Mr. Antoine.
Further Return To Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you. My recollection, Mr. Speaker, on this document, it was a general document that looked at how this government will look at the office space requirements. It was a flexible, free-flowing document. As we made the decision to go with one of the options, and as more work went into it, there was enough flexibility in there that there were changes. It
was not a very set, concrete plan saying that this is exactly what we are going to do. It was free-flowing. Yes, there were changes. Thank you.
Further Return To Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Question 368-13(5): Yellowknife Office Space Plan
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you. Oral questions. Mr. Steen.
Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Vince Steen Nunakput
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to Mr. Antoine, Minister of Transportation. Mr. Speaker, I would like to know if the department has any plans to resurface the runways of Sachs Harbour or Holman Island this year? Thank you.
Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Antoine.
Return To Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have to look that up and get back to the Member. Thank you.
Return To Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you. Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Steen.
Supplementary To Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Vince Steen Nunakput
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I note in this year's budget there is no capital money for resurfacing of those two runways, Sachs Harbour or Holman Island. Is there a plan in place to do the jobs or would this be under operations and maintenance funding instead?
Supplementary To Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Mr. Antoine.
Further Return To Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the information I received is only for Sachs Harbour on the capital side and is that we are going to be doing some more work on rehabbing the air terminal building. On the airport side, I have to look into whether we are going to be rehabbing the air strip. I know we had some problems last year on the air strip - rehabilitation of Sachs Harbour - on account of access to gravel problems that we had there. I have to check into it with the department to see how we will be dealing with it again this summer. Thank you.
Further Return To Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you. Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Steen.
Supplementary To Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
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Vince Steen Nunakput
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank the Minister for that information. I would appreciate further information that he would have on projects and also inform the communities. Thank you.
Supplementary To Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Mr. Antoine.
Further Return To Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will do that. Thank you.
Further Return To Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Question 369-13(5): Resurfacing Nunakput Runways
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Oral questions. Mr. Roland.
Question 370-13(5): Highway Construction Strategy
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Floyd Roland Inuvik
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question at this time would be directed to the Minister responsible for Transportation, Mr. Antoine. Mr. Speaker, I have raised before in this Assembly the concern for employment long-term strategy and the road to resources. Mr. Speaker, recently I received information from Minister Antoine, in response to a letter, saying that because of the cost of the exercise, the lack of the possibilities of lowering prices and the Inuvik region is already hooked up by the Dempster Highway, that it was not looked at favourably. Not to look at a project overall as has been done in the past, I raise the concern as an employment strategy which would result in benefits the whole region. Mr. Speaker, my question to the Minister is, knowing that we cannot afford to look at these projects, for example I think it was $700 million for the Mackenzie Valley highway, I would like to ask the Minister if he would once again look at the possibilities of funding, to a certain degree, the access of preparing a right-of-way for a road for future and ongoing. If it is ten or 20 years, we need to start doing something to put people to work and create the infrastructure and the roads that we can access resources by. Thank you.
Question 370-13(5): Highway Construction Strategy
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Antoine.
Return To Question 370-13(5): Highway Construction Strategy
Question 370-13(5): Highway Construction Strategy
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if this department had the funding, we would do a lot more than we are. Currently, we have an existing winter road system north of Wrigley into the Sahtu area through Tulita and Norman Wells up to Fort Good Hope. We try to open it every year and this year we just opened the connection about 10 days ago. We finally opened up the winter road into the Sahtu area. We are scheduled to shut it down March 17th. It is a very short window. In going to Tulita last weekend, the discussion was, why can we not do more work on the right-of-way that is already in existence? We do. Every year this department has some funds to give $700,000 a year to the winter road improvements. That is just doing a little more to improve what we already have. That is stretching it quite a ways. The intention here, with the limited funding we have, is just to improve it. They improve some of the crossings and stream crossings along the winter road system. It is not going along as fast as everybody wanted it too, but that is the best we could do at the present time. Connecting the winter road from Fort Good Hope to the Inuvik area is a task I have asked the department to look at. With the information that I received from the department, with the limited amount of money that we have, it is impossible to do at this point. Thank you.
Return To Question 370-13(5): Highway Construction Strategy
Question 370-13(5): Highway Construction Strategy
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you. Oral questions. Supplementary,
Mr. Roland.