Mr. Blake has no further questions. Who is next on my list? Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I heard Mr. Moses’ discussion regarding the Inuvik Airport terminal and how it was being repaired. The contract has been put out. I know the contract has been awarded at least a couple of months ago. I am just wondering the cost of that particular contract on that repair. Let’s start with that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Minister Ramsay.

Madam Chair, that was a few months back. It was around $100,000. It was through Public Works and Services that the repairs were conducted on the Inuvik terminal building. Thank you.

On that particular repair, has it been finished yet? I didn’t catch that part, the dialogue earlier, but has it been finished yet? Has the scope remained the same from the original tender?

Yes, the repairs have been concluded at the Inuvik air terminal building. Thank you.

Is there any change to the scope, as I was asking just a minute ago? Did it still remain the same? Thank you.

It would have stayed the same. It was just a repair. Thank you, Madam Chair.

I have nobody else on my list. Does committee agree on page 11-17, activity summary, airports, operations expenditure summary, $28.677 million?

Thank you. Page 11-18, activity summary, airports, grants and contributions, contributions, $30,000.

Thank you. Page 11-19, information item, airports, active positions. Any questions?

Thank you. Page 11-21, activity summary, highways, operations expenditure summary, $67.844 million. Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Madam Chair. My question is a very simple one here. I hope we get a simple answer. The amortization number from 2011-12 to 2012-13 seems to be a substantial jump. Can the Minister indicate as to what exactly constituted that change in amortization calculations? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Minister.

Over the past five years the Government of the Northwest Territories has spent close to $1 billion in capital infrastructure around the territory. This is just a case of the Department of Transportation putting more assets into service around the Northwest Territories and that is why you see the increase in amortization. Thank you.

Can the Minister be more specific as to what large pieces of infrastructure that would have constituted the calculation to be that high?

It would be whatever our capital spending has taken place. Highway No. 3, Highway No. 4, just to name a couple. We can get the list for the Member if he likes. Thank you.

Yes, I will take the Minister up on his offering and hopefully he may be able to provide that to all the Members here.

When you see a shift like that in terms of amortization numbers, it is usually a large amount of depreciative assets and having that information definitely helps the Members here understand the calculations that are being used. Thank you, Madam Chair.

I think once we get the projects out there, we can make that correlation on the increased amortization that you see and the number of capital projects that the department has

been involved in over the last little while here. We can make that clear. Thank you.

Thank you for that commitment. Next on the list is Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to follow up on some discussion about vehicle registration, an issue that my constituents and many others in the Northwest Territories have raised from time to time when there are people like me who have been fined twice for their vehicles not being registered. In both cases, I was returning from months away. People are not getting notices. It is the same sort of thing in our health care system where people are missing appointments and it is costing the system, obviously, as well. I did have a constituent that sent an example of a digital mechanism, no PYs involved, to actually make this automatic. I am wondering if perhaps the Minister has considered that sort of thing as a way to help out our residents and those feebleminded such as myself to register their vehicles in a timely way. Thank you.