Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, on a yearly basis, I believe, the Department of Transportation through their airport offices have a truck rally or rodeo, they call it. Do they invite anybody from outside of the capital? Thank you.
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Mr. Chairman, yes, the participants or contestants in that are from all across the Territories. The airport maintainers in the small communities are made aware of it. They can compete if they want to in it. It is not at all a Yellowknife-based exercise. In fact, I think some of the, it moves around the territory and some of the strongest competitors have been up from outside of Yellowknife. Thank you.
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Steven Nitah Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That's good to hear. It's through the band that the airport is maintained. That individual works for the band and not for the Department of Transportation or Municipal and Community Affairs. Would that individual be invited to this competition and if they are, is there any... I don't like to use the word "compensation" for the band or whoever is employing this individual, but a lot of times this individual can't afford the time to leave the community to participate. These jobs are usually restricted to the foreman's position and those guys are going six days a week, a 12 or 14-
hour day. The question is the airport maintainers, are they invited no matter who they work for? Thank you.
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Mr. Chairman, what we do is invite the contractor to participate, so that could be a band council, it could be a contractor. Twenty-one of our airports are operated by other than government crews. It is then up to the contractor to decide whether or not they want to have any of their employees participate in it. I suppose it's up to the employees to make it known to their boss that they want to participate and work on an arrangement. We have not, up to now, paid the travel costs or the lost time for employees to participate in this from contractors. It would be up to each contractor. We hope the contractor will see the value of having their employees participate as well. Thank you.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It would be nice if those people could be working for the Department of Transportation, so there is no question. A lot of times the employer may not want to let go of their employees. It's going to cost them money, so what is the motivation for the employer, Mr. Chairman? That's not something I want to get into an argument about. I strongly suggest and recommend that the department do what it can do to get these people there. I know my constituents have never been there. There's got to be some logistical or financial or other challenges there. Having said that, Mr. Chairman, I would like to recommend that we go into detail.
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Some Hon. Members
Detail.
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Agreed.
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We are on page 10-9, corporate services, operations expense, total operations expense, $8.223 million.
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Airports
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Page 10-13, airports, operations expense, total operations expense, $21.442 million.
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Page 10-15, airports, grants and contributions, contributions, total contributions, $20,000.
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Highways
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We are onto 10-17, highways, operations expense, total operations expense, $36.855 million.
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Agreed.
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Ferries
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Page 10-21, ferries, operations expense, total operations expense, $5.264 million.
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Community Marine Infrastructure
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Page 10-25, community marine infrastructure, operations expense, total operations expense, $335,000.
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Agreed.
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