Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It was a simple memorandum of understanding between the Government of the Northwest Territories’ Transportation and the Town of Inuvik, and somehow the document is getting bigger and bigger. It started off with a few sections. The last count, I
think, was 33
sections. Every time, it
seems, it goes back to the department there are more sections added on. Pretty soon we’ll end up with a document this thick.
I would like to ask the Minister today — and he is the Minister of Transportation; he has the authority to direct his department to get issues resolved — to assert that authority and direct his department to expedite the signing of this MOU between Transportation and the Town of Inuvik. This is something that’s been going on for three years, and it’s just taking too long.
Would the Minister commit to directing — I repeat “directing” — his department to have this thing finalized within the next month?