Thank you, Mr. Neudorf. Questions on this page, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. In my opening comments I spoke about the operating and maintenance of the new Trout Lake Airport and the need for snow removal equipment, and that’s something that would certainly benefit them. It’s a much larger airport and the community indicates that having a grader is just not going to work, as you can see, with the larger volumes of snow that can happen on a much larger surface. I would just like to ask about a snow blower to be put in the plans for the community of Trout Lake.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I had indicated earlier that we were going to take a look at how things worked with the current equipment for one season with what equipment was in place, and if it appeared to be very difficult for the community to manage, keeping the airstrip cleared with the current equipment, then the snow blower would be a capital item or an item that maybe they could work with the rest of the community to determine whether or not that would be high up on the community’s capital list as well.

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. That’s good news. Mr. Menicoche, any more questions? No? Okay. Thank you.

Airports, operations expenditure summary, $27.811 million.

Agreed. Thank you. Page 454, airports, grants, contributions and transfers, contributions $20,000.

Agreed. Airports, active positions, information item.

Thank you. Community Access Program, operations expenditure summary, $1.008 million.

Agreed. Thank you. Page 458, Community Access Program, grants, contributions and transfers, contributions $980,000.

Agreed. Thank you. Corporate services, operations expenditure summary, $10.965 million. Ms. Bisaro.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I have a question here with regards to the Transportation Strategy 2015-2040. The Minister talked about it the other day in a Minister’s statement. This strategy seems to have been being developed for quite some time and I gather we’ve now done consultation, and that’s a good thing. According to the Minister’s statement, our next step is to prepare a draft of the Transportation Strategy and then go back out and visit each region of the NWT in the spring of 2015 to discuss the draft strategy with residents and stakeholders. So, that’s great, lots of consultation. I do like to hear that, but I’d like to know from the Minister when we can expect to see not a “what we heard document,” which is what he tabled the other day, but when are we going to see the actual strategy itself in terms of transportation and the road strategy? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The strategy is intended to run from this year, 2015, probably this summer, in around that time. I guess, essentially the strategy is being done in 25 year blocks, NWT Transportation Strategy, so from 1990 to 2015, which is just beginning to end now. But in essence, a strategy does not expire, so if we don’t have the next strategy fully developed, we would just continue with the strategy. But the intention, the plan, I guess, is to complete a strategy every 25 years and look at all of the various modes of transportation that we have in the territory, being highways, winter roads, marines, airports. That’s what the intention is, so we hope that after we were able to take the strategy out on the road that we would have one complete strategy.

My question was when. I heard lots of info in there, but when will this strategy be complete?

We will table the actual strategy for the spring session.

That’s good. Thank you.

Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I also want to follow up on the Green Light, I believe it was called, environmental strategy for the department. Are we expecting an update on that strategy or that process and an evaluation of how well we’re doing?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Beaulieu.