Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Mr. Neudorf.
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Neudorf
Thank you. Mr. Chair, typically what would happen in airport operations is we would look to see what the drivers are that would fit with forced growth criteria and then we would determine if we could make a case. If we can pursue a forced growth submission the most common type of forced growth in the airport's activity particularly would be a contract cost increase. So if we have a contract that's coming up for renewal, we'll know that there will be some inflationary increase to that contract and so we will pursue forced growth to get that inflationary contract cost increase. Sometimes it can be usage has increased at a facility that would drive some additional O and M, which qualify for forced growth, and then in the past we have also got forced growth increase related to weather events where we're getting more…you know, the climate is changing, it's getting warmer, that causes us to undertake more O and M. And so we have been successful in the past in getting forced growth for that situation as well. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I thank the deputy minister for his answer. In regards to regional budgets and that, do you track the increases needed throughout the year or the fiscal years? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Neudorf
Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. The contracts are obviously airport-based typically so we would track each of those contracts individually. For this particular budget there is actually a forced growth increase of $257,000, that's in the Fort Simpson region. It is for contract cost increases related to both highways and airport-related activities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you, and I thank Mr. Neudorf for that answer. I guess right now I'm looking at the airports. Do you have that split between the airports and the highways? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Neudorf
Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So there were seven different contracts that resulted in that $257,000 increase. Of those, two were airport-related, one for Trout Lake airport and one for Jean Marie River Airport. The Trout Lake airport resulted from the new longer runway that we recently completed construction of in the community. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you. Just in regards to contract services. It's a $4,000 difference from the-- approximately, I guess it's $33.6 million difference in the 2015 revised to the main. Is there-- what's the difference in there? Why have we seen such a huge reduction in this area? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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The Chair R.J. Simpson
Thank you, Minister Schumann. Just for the sake of Hansard and clarity, if you wouldn't mind just letting the Committee know who you're directing the question to. Mr. Neudorf.
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Neudorf
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The revised mains were quite a bit higher under contract services in 2015-16 and that's because we did get some one-time funding for two different runways. We had some significant repairs that had to be undertaken at Yellowknife Airport; it was about $3 million repair, and then $1.6 million at Inuvik to complete a repair that we had there. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I hope this is my last question on this section here. Does the department cover 24-hour services for the smaller communities, i.e., for medevacs and that, when there's the need for runways to be cleared? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Wally Schumann Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. When there's an emergency in any of the communities we'll call out all services that need to be to facilitate cleaning the runways so the emergency can be responded to. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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The Chair R.J. Simpson
Thank you, Minister. There's nothing further from Mr. Thompson. Do I have more comments or question on page 409? Seeing none, we'll call the page, Transportation, airports, operations expenditure summary, activity total, $28,598,000. Agreed?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair R.J. Simpson
Committee agrees. We'll move on to corporate management. The activity totals on page 413, we'll defer consideration until we look at the detail beginning on page 414. Questions on page 414, grants, contributions and transfers? Mr. Beaulieu.
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Tom Beaulieu Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I'm wondering how much money would it take to fund all of the projects under the local community roads project? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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