Thank you, Madam Chair. I just have a couple of general comments here. I’d like to initially start off and say that the department has done a good job in enhancing the services to residents through the on-line services, which started fairly recently. I was able to re-register my vehicle and did it on a Sunday morning, having a cup of coffee – it was grand – and then received the blank sticker in the mail, I don’t know, a week or so ago and I haven’t put it on yet, but minus 30 is not great for putting them on.
So I hope that the department will take the success of vehicle registration and expand. They were talking about expanding on-line services, so I hope that it will happen sooner rather than later. This latest one seems to be fairly successful, so that’s all good.
I do want to express my concern still about the Inuvik-Tuk highway and the costs for that particular project. We keep getting little bits of the project that are sort of coming to us after the fact. I know we’ve had a contract initially that is over with and now we have a second contract, but then we’ve also got costs for the royalties and for the gravel. So I guess I’m just again expressing my concern about the fact that this project is very similar to one we had a number of years ago and I’m extremely hesitant that we are actually going to make this project on budget and on schedule. On schedule is probably a heck of a lot easier to make than on budget. So, basically, just a concern that I want to express there.
I did raise it in the House, but I want to mention it again. I’m quite disappointed that the department has not yet done a post-mortem on the Deh Cho Bridge. That whole project from beginning to end was fraught with difficulties and certainly processes which we don’t want to repeat. The Minister has advised me that yes, that’s going to be done, but I think the timing was something like before the end of the 17th Assembly and that’s an awful long time
from when the project itself was finished. So I would
encourage the Minister to finish it an awful lot sooner.
Other than that, I don’t have anything else to add. Thank you.