Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In regard to the reference to strategy 7, I have reviewed it and I do not see anything referring to the Norman Wells airport plan. I would like to ask the Minister exactly how is it that such an item you state is part of our responsibility under the Non-Renewable Resource Development strategy 7, there is no response in there to airports. It mostly deals with the all-weather road to increase the exploration development and also the consideration of the Mackenzie Highway from Wrigley north. I would like to ask the Minister, where did you come to the assumption that the Norman Wells airport plan was part and parcel of that section of the strategy?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Handley.

Mr. Chairman, the airport projects are not necessarily included in here. This is a summary document. They are included in the overall transportation strategy.

I might also point out, Mr. Chairman, I do not know if I said it was strategy 7, but it is actually in strategy 12.

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Is that what it says in the book?

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Yes, in the book it says 7, but it is actually 12. If you have the Non-Renewable Resource Strategy in front of you, there is a section on Sahtu, Deh Cho and Beaufort Delta regions, a provision in there for funding for $1 million a year for emerging development projects and so on. It does not break it down item by item for two reasons.

One is that development is happening at a pace and in places that we have difficulty predicting exactly where it will be. Second, as years go on, we are looking at a four-year strategy. It is very difficult to predict from four years from now where all the activity might be. It might all be in Tsiigehtchic. We do not know. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As a Member asking a question yesterday to the Minister regarding the strategy, he stated clearly that the responsibility for the project is being agreed to because of our responsibility under the strategy. Now you are telling me it is another section of the strategy. I am not too sure exactly what to believe here. I would like to ask the Minister, is it strategy 7 or is it strategy 12? The wording under airports states strategy 7.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Handley.

Mr. Chairman, as I just said, there is a mistake in the book. It is a misprint. It should read strategy 12. If you take a look at the Non-Renewable Resource Strategy, you will find it on page 44 in appendix C. It is in 12, not in seven. There is a mistake in the book. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There seems to be some inconsistency. One day it is in 7, the next day it is in 12. Tomorrow is it going to be 13 or 15? The point I made earlier is there are always items within the whole strategy. With the supplementary, you are only talking about one aspect of this strategy, yet there are all of these other elements to the strategy regarding the other communities up and down the valley, the winter roads, ensuring we have money put into the winter roads that is not there now, ensuring there is a winter road opening to Colville Lake which is now part of our transportation expenditures.

I want to ensure there is an opportunity for other communities that will be affected by this strategy. We do lack a lot of infrastructure and resources to ensure that they have the fundamentals. Most communities, in case there is an emergency, should have the ability for a helicopter to land, so there should be a helicopter pad. We should be ensuring when there is a shift change taking place in the communities, that they do not have to find their own way to the regional centres -- Inuvik, Norman Wells -- that they can be picked up in their home communities and transported to the work sites.

I think with this one, we do have to get it clear on exactly what the money is going to be used for and why it is we have only focused on one community and not all of the other communities.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Handley.

Mr. Chairman, let me say that as development happens in the regions, we want to be sensitive to where the needs are. The Non-Renewable Resource Strategy outlines generally over a four-year plan, where we believe the expenditure will have to happen. In this case, we have predicted that we need up to $1 million per year in the Sahtu, Deh Cho and Beaufort Delta regions for this kind of community-based infrastructure.

It is very difficult to predict four years ahead of time and lay out a whole plan of where we will go. We may build it and make improvements in the wrong place. The Norman Wells one was identified as a priority because of the amount of activity in the Norman Wells area, not necessarily right in Norman Wells, but in that area.

Mr. Steen has more information on the airport planning and expenditures proposed for the Inuvik and Fort Simpson region, so Mr. Chairman, I will refer to him.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Minister Steen, do you have anything to add to that?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the department is in the process of completing a development plan for the Inuvik and Fort Simpson airports in the 2001-02 business plans. We are in the process right now of addressing the impact on those two specific communities in relation to oil and gas activity. Norman Wells in particular has not had its airport updated since 1984.

We are now trying to address a catch up, really, with the impact on that particular airport and the needs of the oil and gas activity are being reflected in the fact that there is more and more activity at the airport. We have to develop some kind of plan as to how we are going to lay out these needs at the airport. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Steen. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Could the Minister tell us if there are any other airports that are under the same scenario, or the same problem where they have seen a real increase in the traffic at the airport?

I will use another area, Inuvik. There has been a major increase in the traffic at that airport. Are they going to have an update in their plan? Are they in the same problem as Norman Wells? Is it just Norman Wells or are there other airports whose plans have not been updated since 1984?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as I just finished stating, the Inuvik plans are being updated in this business plan. We are in the process of doing that right now.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Krutko.

Where did you find the money to do the update of that plan? Was that for Highway No. 8?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Steen.

Mr. Chairman, I believe it is part of the business plan and the budget approved for 2001-02.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. We are on airports, not previously authorized, $85,000. Agreed?

Agreed. Motor vehicles, not previously authorized, $1,800,000. Mr. Bell.