Marsi cho, Madam Chair. Committee would like to consider Tabled Document 43-19(2), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2020-2021, Department of Finance. Marsi cho.

Does committee agree?

Thank you, committee. We will proceed with the first item. 2020-2021 Supplementary Estimates, No. 1, (infrastructure expenditures), Infrastructure, capital investment expenditures, asset management. Sorry, I forgot. Minister of Finance, do you have any opening remarks?

Yes, Madam Chair. Thank you. Madam Chair, I am here to present the Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2020-2021. The supplementary estimates document proposes an increase of $28.7 million, comprised of the following items:

• $10 million to fund environmental assessment and planning work to be completed in 2023-2024, to inform the potential construction of an all-weather road from Highway No. 4 to Lockhart Lake within the Slave Geological Province Corridor. Of this amount, 75 percent will be funding by the Government of Canada's National Trade Corridors Fund;
• $10.6 million will be for surface structures adaptation for climate change resilience at the Mike Zubko Airport in Inuvik;
• $3.5 million will be to increase fuel storage capacity to mitigate impacts to public and essential services;
• these two projects are funded 75 percent by the Government of Canada's Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund; and
• $4.6 million for the Mike Zubko Airport runway extension design, which is 100 percent funded by the Department of National Defence.

That concludes my opening remarks. I would be happy to answer any questions that Members might have.

Thank you, Minister. Do you have witnesses to bring?

Madam Chair, I do have witnesses, and I think I can say at present staff from the Department of Finance, all of my senior staff from the Department of Finance, have been involved in a variety of meetings this morning, and they are on their way. They are not here. I think they had thought there would be a break, not realizing that we had just broken for lunch. I am told they are literally on their way here, but they are not here now. Madam Chair, I am prepared to begin speaking to the infrastructure supplementaries on my own and have the witnesses escorted in as they arrive.

Marsi cho, Madam Chair. In light of the development that the witnesses are not here, I would ask just for a quick recess until the witnesses arrive. Marsi cho.

I will ask committee. Does committee agree?

Okay.

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I call the committee back to order. Thank you. We will wait for your witnesses to come, and then we will have the Sergeant-at-Arms escort them in. Is he here? Okay. Sergeant-at-Arms, can you escort the witness in, please. Minister, will you please introduce your witness for the record.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate the indulgence. We are all working diligently this morning on a number of things. I have here with me Mr. Sandy Kalgutkar. He is the deputy minister of Finance.

Thank you. I will now open the floor for general comments. Seeing no questions, we will move to detail. We will begin on page 6, 2020-2021 Supplementary Estimates No. 1, (Infrastructure Expenditures), infrastructure, capital investment expenditures, asset management, not previously authorized, $10 million. Questions? Member for Frame Lake.