Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the strategy in the next little while is to have a meeting in Inuvik and there, we will be bringing in the stakeholders. We are going to do the same thing for the Mackenzie Valley and the Slave Geologic Province. Bringing in the stakeholders would be the mayors, chiefs and different leaders of the community together to have a workshop regarding the road between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk to see what it will encompass. We will be looking at everything that is going to be encompassed in the whole approach. Such as, there are settlement lands we have to deal with. There are crown lands, and so forth, and the type of training and so forth. Everything is going to be discussed, hopefully, at these workshops. It will be a stakeholder's meeting for the Inuvik/Tuktoyaktuk road. There might be a possibility to raise the issue of concerns for Aklavik there as well. The main purpose of that stakeholders' workshop would be to deal with the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk road. If Aklavik wants to be invited, we will invite them. Perhaps, there will be an opportunity to raise your concerns there. However, we could have our own people go into Aklavik, as we spoke about earlier by the department itself, solely just to deal with what it will encompass and what types of strategies would be required to start thinking about a road from, let us say, the Dempster Highway into Aklavik. There are two ways of dealing with it. I would prefer to go with my officials directly to Aklavik, with some of the planning staff, and deal directly with Aklavik first, to deal specifically with their request for the road. On the other hand if they want to participate, we could do that too. Thank you.
Jim Antoine on Question 590-13(5): Meeting Of Highways Planning Committee
In the Legislative Assembly on May 29th, 1998. See this statement in context.
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Question 590-13(5): Meeting Of Highways Planning Committee
Item 6: Oral Questions
May 28th, 1998
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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