There is no plan to do that at this time.

I guess just to get clarity on something that still has a bit of Vaseline on the lens here, would the Minister commit, and the deputy as well, to come back to committee with a full list of those on-line services that are available on short order and those on-line services that will be initiated, with any timeline components so that we can have a better understanding of exactly what’s being offered and a reasonable timeline of when we should see those come into activity?

We’ll continue to do the work that we’ve talked about with the on-line services and the upgrades. We’ll package that together and make the commitment today to perhaps get in front of the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Infrastructure and go over the services that are currently provided on-line and what the upgrades will be. I know the chairman is very interested in the subject matter, as well, so we’ll compile that, we’ll get a briefing with the standing committee and go from there.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Madam Chair. No further questions.

Thank you. Mr. Yakeleya.

Madam Chair, I want to ask the Minister how the new road licensing system that’s working in our region, we had some difficulties and the Minister, I think we actually had some discussion and you helped us out. How is that new system going to help us? Are we going to have a similar type of situation where I heard my colleagues talk about it taking them longer to get licences, and we’re going to be needing people up there with Class 3 and Class 1, people who need to go to work and they don’t have some of the technology in Colville Lake or Fort Good Hope or Tulita or even Norman Wells to help our people get their licences quicker, faster? Sometimes we have to go on the schedule of the government and it sometimes doesn’t quite work with us. I want to ask the Minister if that system has been approved in the Sahtu, especially with the resource development opportunities that are going to be coming down the tube in the next couple of months and next couple years.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Getting back to the Member’s concerns, when we first rolled out the MVIS system last year, there were a few growing pains that we heard about. Certainly, we addressed those concerns and we haven’t had any difficulties since then.

As far as getting into the communities, we go into the communities when requested, when there’s a number there that it’s warranted to visit the communities, we do. When there’s testing required, we get in there. So if the Member is aware of circumstances or situations where we didn’t, I’d be more than happy to talk to him about how we can address that.

The previous experience I had with the department and our communities, certainly there’s got to be a critical mass to warrant. Sometimes that’s not the case and sometimes drivers have to wait three to five months before we can get enough people in that community before the department says, okay, we’ll come in and do the test or issue the licence. Even issuing the licence, sometimes we can’t wait three to four months because the work is not going to be there. Sometimes they have to make special arrangements to charter a plane on their own expense in the Sahtu to fly to Norman Wells or wherever they can get their licence.

I know the Minister and department have made special effort in the past to help us out here. They made some efforts to go the extra mile to help people get their licence so they can go to work and contribute to the community and have some money in their pockets. I know that’s special circumstances. Even so far as they have worked with the Aurora College in Colville Lake. That was a success. That’s what we want to look for in our communities. Those are the special circumstances we have in the Sahtu. Similar maybe in Yellowknife, but Yellowknife has a different type of issue there. That’s kind of the same thing we’re looking for, is how do we get these individuals who want their licence to go to work.

That’s the thing I want to ask the Minister. When he looks at Yellowknife it’s so different in the Sahtu or Beaufort-Delta where communities such as ours are going to be impacted by resource development. I appreciate the Minister making an offer, that if it’s an issue that we have in our region, that the department and Minister have our ears and we’ll see how we can work out some situations. I know sometimes cost is a factor in a decision. At times we have to weigh the cost-analysis benefits. It doesn’t quite always favour on the community’s side. Sometimes we need to make special provisions where possibly some of these people in our communities can fly to Norman Wells, for example, and obtain their licence. Hopefully that will be a subtitle or a policy that the department may cover or otherwise they will have to do it on their own. It is kind of sensitive.

I look forward to seeing the Minister work on these types of issues when we have these types of systems. Ideally, you want to have a system in the Sahtu where they can go and obtain their licence.

Sometimes that is not the case. I want to thank the Minister on that point there. I look forward to any types of suggestions he may have. These are my questions on this page here.

Madam Chair, I thank the Member for his concerns. We are always looking for opportunities to find solutions by working with communities. It is something that we continue to do. We try to assist wherever possible. I know we have done that in Colville Lake. We are also doing that in Trout Lake. We certainly don’t have an unlimited number of funds. We have to be very creative. We have to work with those communities to find solutions wherever possible. Again, I appreciate the Member’s concerns. Hopefully we can work out any difficulties he may have in communities he represents. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. We are on Transportation, activity summary, road licensing and safety, infrastructure investment summary, total infrastructure investment summary, $1.050 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, committee. We will turn to page 9-2, Transportation, department summary, infrastructure investment summary, total infrastructure investment summary, $26.250 million.

Thank you, committee. Does committee agree that we have concluded the Department of Transportation?

Thank you, committee. I would like to thank the Minister and his witness for being here. Sergeant-at-Arms, would you escort the witnesses from the Chamber? Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that we report progress.

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Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. I will now rise and report progress.

Can I have the report from Committee of the Whole, please, Ms. Bisaro?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Do we have a seconder to the motion? Mr. Ramsay.

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Item 22, third reading of bills. Mr. Clerk, orders of the day.

Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Accordingly, this House stands adjourned until Thursday, October 25, 2012, at 1:30 p.m.

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The House adjourned at 5:51 p.m.