Well, I hate to call the Minister wrong, but he’s wrong because I did it last week. I towed a big boat with my vehicle and it’s a small vehicle. It’s not as fancy as the $65,000 luxury vehicle they want for the sheriff’s office to drive the judges around and it doesn’t ride as smooth as an Audi, but I’ll tell you my vehicle did it. So, I still haven’t got to the answer of how many times did the vehicle go to Behchoko last year and the Minister doesn’t have it, he just wants to cite platitudes, saying, well, it goes three to five times. But we don’t really have a real answer, because I think that’s important when going to the next question, which is: How often is that vehicle used, the one that’s left behind. I think Ms. Bisaro very astutely picked it out, which is: Is that busy running to Tim Horton’s? Is that busy maybe serving a summons which only is a piece of paper and a cup of
coffee, really? I mean, it’s not driving court parties
around town so we need a full-sized vehicle, a $65,000 vehicle sitting at the courthouse just in case we might need it to run someone to the airport. Why not make two runs to the airport?
When I had invited the mayor, the old mayor of Edmonton, to Yellowknife, I made a comment in saying, “Yes, Yellowknife suffers from rush minute,” and he laughed for about 20 minutes. “Because we’re so small,” I said, “everywhere is about five minutes away.” So, we don’t need the second super- sized vehicle just to drive a sheriff around so they can serve a summons. I mean, it just seems like poor management and a little bit on the gluttony side of ourselves. I mean, we only really, from the sounds of it, could barely justify one, Mr. Chairman.
So, perhaps the Minister could go back and answer the honest question, which is: How many times did it go to Behchoko last year? I don’t know why they haven’t answered this question and how do we go forward without knowing t
his. I don’t know why
they’re asking for $65,000 without being able to answer that question. Thank you.