Thank you, Madam Chair. We have a project here to work on replacing our existing motor vehicle information system. We have been upgrading this for a few years now as we’ve been adding additional requirements, one of which being the Deh Cho Bridge and the toll collection. Toll permits will be issued through the motor vehicle information system, so we’ve been doing some upgrades. In fact, we have rebuilt the interface that
all the client service managers in the communities and in our own-force operations use and that’s been underway this week, actually. We do need a bit more money. This is a total of $1.7 million over the next two years that will allow us to completely rebuild the motor vehicle information system. This is responsible for $5 million worth of revenue right now; and once the tolls come in, it will be about $9 million of GNWT revenue that would go through the system.
One of the big benefits that we hope to achieve in this project is to introduce on-line services related to vehicle registrations and perhaps some other services. Of course, if that’s on line it would be available to anybody in any community. We would see that as an improvement to the service that we’re delivering to the public right now. That will also mean some changes in some of our smaller communities where there is a relatively minimal amount of business related to motor vehicle information services. We’ll have to determine that impact, and we will work with communities and our clients as we do that.
We have developed, in recent years, a mobile issuing station. It’s basically an issuing office in a suitcase that we can go into smaller communities and provide driver’s licensing testing services, and we’ve done that on a few occasions when there’s enough to warrant or enough need in a community. They will make a request to us and we’ll go in and send somebody in with this mobile office and provide the services required.