Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As the Member has referenced, I am well aware of the highway needs between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk and I am aware that the department has been working with both communities, both Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, through their highway planning committee and it is through the Highways Strategy which involves studies of four separate regions that we are trying to address the highway between Tuktoyaktuk and Inuvik. At the present time there is a study going on financed by the department in particular to the Tuktoyaktuk-Inuvik connection and I believe the study is at the stage where they are calling for requests for proposals for identifying what process would be required in order to obtain the land and right-of-way for the highway. What groups would have to be contacted, who owns the land, and at this point in time I am only aware of Inuvialuit and crown land being involved, but there is a need to identify exactly what the process is to obtain these lands and right-of-ways, so there is a study being undertaken and I think that the department plans to have this study done by August of this year. After that it would be part of the overall Highway Strategy of the department as to what exactly would be the outcome of all these studies of the four regions and then we would identify priorities, which area we would want to start with and, hopefully, we could have some kind of financing in place by then as to possibly advancing on all four areas at once if that is the identified proposal and the choice of the Assembly and the department and Cabinet, I presume. So that is where the whole thing sits right now and in the end it would be part of the territorial Highways Strategy. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Vince Steen on Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction
In the Legislative Assembly on April 27th, 1999. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
April 27th, 1999
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