Madam Chair, this is a situation that we would be more than happy to look into. I’m under the understanding that that may not be the case, but if the Member has a specific case where in each province during transit of purchasing a vehicle they had to get a new in transit from each province they pass through, again, that is something… We will look into it. It shouldn’t happen. If it is happening, we’ll try to make sure that it doesn’t happen to anybody else. Thank you.

Madam Chair, I will be more than happy to bring all of my paperwork to the department on that one as well.

NWT Road Safety Plan, this was something that was brought up by the department and yet we have not seen the framework of this NWT Road Safety Plan. Can the department indicate when this might occur and, if so, is this going to be occurring in the 2013-14 budget cycle?

Madam Chair, we continue to work on the Road Safety Plan. It is still a work in progress. As to the date, I would be

guessing. As soon as it’s done we’ll be back before committee with that plan. Thank you.

Madam Chair, I have no further questions. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Committee, we’re on page 11-33, Transportation, activity summary, road licensing. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Madam Chair. It’s my pleasure to offer some insightful thoughts on this particular page, especially for those who called for detail, and detail I will provide. The issue I’ve raised here is about the question about on-line updates where people can apply for certain services, obviously with fees. This is an issue I brought to the House some time ago and I’m wondering about a particular update, if it’s feasible and the department judges it worthy for response. Thank you.

Thanks, Mr. Hawkins. Minister Ramsay.

Thank you, Madam Chair. In response to Member Dolynny’s question about on-line services, we hope to have abstracts available on-line hopefully in the spring of this year. We also look forward to having on-line vehicle registration sometime in ‘13-14. Also, on-line services, client notifications, registrations expiring and things of that nature, booking road tests, and that should happen, as well, this year. So we’re making a great deal of progress in the provision of on-line services here in the territory, and I thank the Members for bringing their concerns to the department’s attention. Thank you.

Thank you. Is it anticipated by the department that there will be any additional fees to this particular service, considering the offset of time and energy we’ll be saving by people booking them and organizing them, or even going through the process of having to print out the statements? So what’s the fee schedule strategy? Thank you.

Thank you. It’s not anticipated that there will be any fee increases associated with people accessing services on-line. Thank you.

That’s fine for now. Thank you.

Thanks. Committee, we’re on page 11-33, Transportation, activity summary, road licensing and safety, operations expenditure summary, $5.490 million.

Pages 11-36 and 37, Transportation, information item, work performed on behalf of others, $2.129 million. Pages 11-36 and 11-37, Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Madam Chair. It’s my further pleasure to offer more insightful comments and questions to this particular page. I was reading some information here under responsibilities, and that’s referring to one of the particular transfer agreements from the Government of Canada to the Department of Transportation. For the official record, we should say that’s the transfer date of May 1990.

Under the responsibility section, plus sections, sections, sections, under there it further goes on that, “The GNWT will assume the following responsibilities…” and if we further follow the chain down, “…funding for dredging of rivers and ferry crossings listed in paragraph 5.” It’s important to get it on the record, of course, so we’ll go to number five and it’s not attached, oddly enough. Here we go, here it is. I found it. “Red Knife River Camp, Liard, Wrigley, McPherson, James Creek.” These are camps. Why isn’t this particular area that the Member for Hay River keeps raising, why isn’t it added to the schedules of territorial responsibility? It seems to me we have enough schedules to point out dredging in other areas. If this is an area where we’ve worked with NTCL as well as the Coast Guard, it would only make sense that it would be part of this. Thank you.

Thanks, Mr. Hawkins. Minister Ramsay.

Thanks, Madam Chair. That was 1990 and in relation to that agreement, we are responsible for ferry landings and I think that’s what the Member is alluding to, the fact that DOT is responsible for dredging near ferry landings, but definitely we’re not responsible for a port like Hay River, to dredge that port. Thank you.

The Minister has already promised to provide the enabling documentation, so there’s no sense in asking the question again. Thank you.

Thank you, committee. We are on pages 11-36 and 11-37, Transportation, information item, work performed on behalf of others, $2.129 million.

Thank you, committee. We will return to page 11-7, Transportation, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $117.011 million.