Mr. Speaker, everyone knows that Aklavik is prone to flooding and has had several floods in the last number of years. Also with the challenges in regard to global warming and melting, permafrost, structural challenges in our communities, maintenance of roads, public infrastructure, implementing new capital projects in regard to water treatment plants, airport extensions, shoreline erosion, and dealing with the replacement of the Joe Greenland seniors facility…. These are just some of the capital projects that we are looking at over the next number of years.
But, Mr. Speaker, as we all know, in order to construct anything in communities, you need gravel. In regard to the flood that took place a couple of years ago in Aklavik, we spent $1.4 million to barge gravel from Inuvik, yet the gravel source is 20 kilometres from the community. Also, it is the linkage to get Aklavik connected to the Dempster Highway.
There was a motion passed in this House, unanimously supported by Members on this side of the House, to have this project move forward along with the project for Tuktoyaktuk in regard to access to their gravel source. I’d like to ask the Premier: could he tell me exactly how much weight that motion had in this House, and what is the government doing to ensure that the motions passed in this House send direction to Cabinet so they move on some of these matters?