I believe we went through a supplementary, previously where there was extraordinary funding identified through a special warrant for work for $800,000, and some for a strip of road in Tuktoyaktuk which came through again through a special warrant. The excuse was the road was bad. It was beaten up. We have other communities in the Territories that also have bad roads and they are rough also. Special warrants seem to be showing up consistently in certain areas, but when there is an emergency or crisis in other communities, you have to pull teeth to get anything into the capital budget. You are always told sorry, it has to go through the capital planning process and that's where you get it. How come some communities are able to use avenues to access funding, yet other communities don't have access to it? We are told that a few years ago, we did a whole revamping of budgetary allocations to communities to ensure that we had a fair distribution of cooperation dollars and dollars to run our municipalities. There was about $100,000 for these types of projects. You say there was a surplus in the budget for a particular community, so they can carry over that surplus to use for a different project. My understanding is there were other dollars being used through special warrants, through extraordinary funding, especially for this community time and time again. I am getting frustrated. I bring up issues that I feel are essential such as community infrastructure and public facilities that are not being taken into consideration or don't have the same weight because I am a regular Member and I am not a Minister. That's what it looks like to me. How much money has been spent through supplementary appropriations and extraordinary funding for the hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk?
David Krutko on Bill 11: Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 3, 2002-2003
In the Legislative Assembly on March 12th, 2003. See this statement in context.
Bill 11: Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 3, 2002-2003
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 12th, 2003
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