Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Some of the projects are negotiated and some are tendered. We have a mix of both types of procurement.

Highway No. 1, negotiated; Highway No. 6, negotiated; half of Highway No. 8, negotiated.

I appreciate that. I also see Highway No. 3 and Highway No. 7, if I can get an update as well.

Highway No. 3, Highway No. 4, Highway No. 7 are all tendered.

I appreciate the fact that we are doing a mix of tendered and RFP’d road construction. I know the contractors out there will be much appreciative.

Would we anticipate, should this capital estimates get approved, that this is construction for the upcoming winter season, or is this spring construction for most of these roads? Thank you.

This is a budget to start on April 1, 2016. So we’ll be doing the majority of the construction for this budget in the summer of 2016.

So,

we’re doing the budgeting after

April 1, 2016, or are we doing the budgeting during the winter months? Can I get clarification on that? Thank you.

We’re in the process now

of going through the infrastructure capital. If and when this budget gets approved, this process then is for the 2016-17 construction season. So the majority of the construction will occur in the summer of 2016, or next summer.

I also know that the road that’s on

here, which I’ll assume has a large component of budget associated, is the Inuvik-Tuk all-weather highway. Again, we don’t have a breakdown here. We have a full number of $69.340 million. What percentage of this capital estimate is attributed to the Inuvik-Tuk Highway all-weather road in this capital estimate?

Thank you. I would say 42 percent.

Thank you very much. I

don’t have

my calculator handy. What is that in the dollar figure of this budget? Thank you.

I know that we’ve been

through the process, the cash flow with the Inuvik- Tuk Highway; we have $30 million in the cash flow.

Thank you very much. So, it appears that we’ve got about $30 million that is part of this a little over $69 million that’s going to be attributed to that one project, which is part of that succession of multiple years in the making here. We know that this project was accelerated last year through both regular process as well as supplementary process. What part of those monies in the past years of both regular appropriation as well as supplementary appropriation is still sitting in stasis? T

hat is that we’ve actually appropriated

money in a bill. This money was given to this department to manage. We got so many kilometres done. We apply for funding from the federal government and then we get matching contributions. How much money is so-called left in a reserve that has not been used from the previous appropriations? Thank you.

For the carry-over numbers, that’s one I’d like to ask the deputy to provide the information.

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Deputy Minister Neudorf.

Thank you, Deputy Minister Neudorf. Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you. So,

it’s safe to say that

we’ve got $4 million of residual or reserve from last year not spent, potentially $30 million that could be appropriated this year. So for a total of $34 million, is that what we’ll see for this fiscal construction season coming up, or will committee be seeing any type of supplementary to accelerate this quicker? Is that going to be enough money to fulfill the obligation of the contractor to meet obligations on a construction timetable? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We do feel that there is enough money to finish the highway.

We also know that, I believe, there was a contingency reserve fund put aside within this project. I can’t remember the exact number, but I believe it was around $5 million. Has any of that contingency money been used, and if so, how much and for what and is there any anticipation that that contingency fund might be used in this upcoming construction season? Thank you.

I can tell you that it was around $200,000, but I don’t have the details of what it was spent on. We’re not scheduled to use the contingency fund in this construction season that we’re now getting some appropriation for.

Thank you. One final question. Are we safe to assume that the contractor is in a so- called “ready, go” position for this upcoming winter season, that we have all the trucks in place, all the people, their employees in place? This $30 million that is appropriated today in conjunction with the $4 million reserve last year, is it going to be sufficient to say that we should have a pretty good completed project at the end of this construction season? Thank you.