Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m going to have the deputy minister or the director respond on the variance and the net fiscal benefit information and the Vote 1 revenues.
For the Detah road, we have all of the money in place now to reconstruct the Detah road completely.
We have some money in capital that we’ve spent and then the rest of it we’ve put in year one of the Building Canada Plan. This year when we did our first bundle, that’s work that’s going to be done under Building Canada Plan. The entire amount to finish that road, 100 percent, is in year one, so we’re pleased with that.
The Niven road, it was difficult to come up with a solution. The people would cross the road at Niven. Realistically the only safe way is an overpass or underpass, but at some point they can’t stay on the Niven side because if they keep staying on the Niven side as they get to the Explorer Hotel they’d come to a rock face and it’s additionally unsafe there. So they do have to cross and, unfortunately, in order to safely walk towards town, they do have to cross right at Niven. I guess we could come up with a solution. Like I said, we’d build something over top of the road, but it would be a very expensive solution. We know that the traffic has been slowed down to the other side, so at one point you were able to pick up speed again as we corner towards Niven, but now the speed sign has… You can only pick up speed, from 45 kilometres to 60, on the other side of Niven. Plus, we put in better lighting. Those are the things we were able to do that were feasible to do at that point. Certainly, there has to be a solution, but it’s expensive, and if we had to build a walking path from there all the way into the city on the other side of the Explorer, it would be another very expensive solution.
I’m going to, I guess, ask the deputy to speak on the variances and fiscal benefit Vote 1 and also why we’re asking for the Inuvik Airport. Actually, I’ll just briefly touch on it. It actually had to do with trying to come up with what we think is a good solution that’s going to work. But with that, I’ll ask
the deputy minister to respond to some of the Member’s questions.