Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Has the department considered using the private sector to do the job? Here's an opportunity for a business person or a community development corporation to take on this challenge. What's to stop a community corporation or a business person from purchasing chipsealing equipment, and being contracted from the government to do the chipseals in the communities? I would like to get a cost breakdown for Lutselk'e. It's a one-day barge ride from Hay River to Lutselk'e, to bring up the chipseal equipment. If the chipsealing program on Highway No. 6 is any indication, you could do it within a week. There is a guy named Dave Smith that travels out of here doing barging services. He does it on contract for supplies. He goes there five or six times in the summer season. So the transportation issue is not an issue for me. We put chipseal into Fort Good Hope first before Lutselk'e, before Fort Res. You are saying it's not politics. Give me a break, Mr. Chairman. The question is will the department consider using the private sector to do chipsealing communities or does the department only have to rely on the Department of Transportation? I sometimes wonder if I have to wait for government, I will be grey by the time I see chipsealing in my communities. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Steven Nitah on Bill 3: Appropriation Act, 2003-2004
In the Legislative Assembly on February 20th, 2003. See this statement in context.
Bill 3: Appropriation Act, 2003-2004
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 19th, 2003
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Steven Nitah Tu Nedhe
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