Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Ramsay.
Debates of March 5th, 2013
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David Ramsay Kam Lake
Thank you, Madam Chair. There would be separate documents but we certainly rely on community emergency plans and anything we do at airports in communities.
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Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
Thank you, Madam Chair. We’re hoping for that one day. Just so I’m very clear, I have to be perfectly crystal clear here that we still have some community emergency action plans at airport authority level that still need to be implemented. Can I just get an inventory of those communities that have yet to achieve that?
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
David Ramsay Kam Lake
That’s an ongoing opportunity for us. Every year we have to go through emergency planning exercises around the Northwest Territories. That is ongoing.
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Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
Can I get maybe an indication, is this an annual accreditation that an airport authority has to maintain, or once your accredited do you have a two-, three-, or five-year life cycle before you are up for an accreditation again?
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David Ramsay Kam Lake
Most would be a year but it’s a cycle where you would have to go through the accreditation. Yes, most cases are on an annual basis.
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Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
If we can maybe get an indication of those airport authorities that have failed or have not met the regulatory requirements that are governed by the federal statutes, if we can get a list of those.
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David Ramsay Kam Lake
We’re complying with regulations that are in place and currently there would be no airports that didn’t meet them. We’re almost finished the SMS. There would be no airports that didn’t meet the requirements.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Page 11-13, Transportation, activity summary, corporate services, operations expenditure summary, $10.326 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Page 11-14, Transportation, information item, corporate services, active positions.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Page 11-17, Transportation, activity summary, airports, operations expenditure summary, $29.704 million. Mr. Dolynny.
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Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I do appreciate the Minister and deputy minister’s answer earlier. Keeping on the topic of airports, if we could maybe get a brief update as to the Public Airports Act. This has to do with airport parking or use of parking or parking issues. Has this been problematic for the Department of Transportation to implement this act?
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Russ Neudorf
Thank you, Madam Chair. The Airports Act itself is working fine. The one specific issue that we did have is around parking and enforcement of parking. We have been able to change our enforcement practices to be able to live within the act. Somewhere on our agenda is to actually come back and update the act, but really the only issue for now is the parking enforcement and we have been able to find a way to make it work. It’s not high on the priority list.
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Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
Maybe I could get a bit more of an explanation from the deputy minister or the Minister. In his reply is “making this work.” Can he maybe elaborate on that last comment?
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Russ Neudorf
Typically when you get a parking ticket, you can put a ticket on the vehicle and you just need to record the licence plate. Our Airports Act does not allow us to do that, so when we issue a parking ticket it has to be to the driver of the vehicle.
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Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
This economy is going to be faced with, as the Minister has put it many times, we’re going to see some substantial economic growth, which will probably put a little bit of strain
and pressure on our airport system. Can the department indicate to us: Have the airport fees been reviewed as of late, and is there any inclination of increasing those fees to accommodate the increased traffic that we may be seeing, especially in areas like the Sahtu?
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