Thank you. Member for Monfwi.
Debates of March 8th, 2023
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Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
Yes, okay. With that in mind, so with the climate change, is there a plan to increase engineer and safety inspection on the winter road, including profiling more often?
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Diane Archie Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I'm going to use one example for Aklavik. We've had the contractors reach out to the department wanting to increase the weight loads on the Aklavik ice road, and we sent our profilers out. You know, we try and -- you know, the profilers are on a schedule but if the community and the contractor feels that, you know, it's ready, then we would send our profiler out. That was one example. And if I want to, just see if Gary wants -- or Mr. Brennan wants to perhaps expand on that. Thank you.
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Brennan
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, for the Tlicho winter road system, I don't believe that the number of inspections or number of profiles is the issue right now. We do profile on a regular basis as required. It has been a challenging year as the Member noted but, you know, warm temperatures to start and increased snowfall in the region. We're aware there's -- we're behind schedule, working with the contractor closely to make it up. Our two highway folks are up there right now. Just one profiled Gameti two days ago and working on Wekweeti right now to get the status updates. So we do profile on a regular basis on those there to increase the weighs as fast as we safely can. But as the Minister noted, safety is the top priority for us when working on ice roads for both the staff and travelling public. So thank you, Madam Chair.
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Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
Yeah, thank you. And I'm just wondering if there's a way that -- I'm just wondering if Tlicho if-- how are Tlicho involved in the profiling? Is there an opportunity to train local people?
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Diane Archie Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I'm going to ask Mr. Brennan to just speak a little bit more about what we as a government are doing, because we have that partnership with Tlicho, and I just would like to give him the opportunity. Thanks, Madam Chair.
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Brennan
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, so when it comes to profiling, a number of years ago we had an incident on a different road where a truck went through the ice and at that time, I think it was 2016, the department made the change in policies whereby we do our own profiling and do our own interpretation. So we have had that in the past. Currently, due to some liabilities incurred from a previous incident, we do all profiling and interpretation of the data. Could we look at training Tlicho residents in the future? That's something that we can certainly discuss, absolutely. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. Just to clarify, this year the winter road to the Monfwi area to Gameti and such is actually being constructed by the Tlicho themselves, is it not? Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. And this is a new thing then that's been happening more recently? In the past, it was constructed by other contractors, is that correct? Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Diane Archie Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I'm going to ask Mr. Brennan to just speak a little bit more about what was done in the past versus what's done now. I'm really happy to know that currently we are working with the Tlicho government and doing this work together. In terms of what is done in the past, I'll get Mr. Brennan to speak a little further to that. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Brennan
Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. So, yeah, so I think that the -- in the past, we always had a contract with the Tlicho Investment Corporation and Construction Corporation for the construction of the roads, and they used a significant number of subcontractors. This year they are doing it on their own although more recently, and because of the challenges that were faced this year with the environmental concerns of, again, warm temperatures, they did bring in a subcontractor late to help get ahead of the game. So the Tlicho are building the majority of the roads and the communities are also involved as well, both from Gameti and Wekweeti, working from their communities south basically. So the communities have always done a little part as well so. But, yes, the Tlicho are doing the majority of the work this year. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. And I think that's good. I mean, we definitely want to be increasing capacity within Indigenous organizations to do the work, and I'm glad to hear that it's not just being subbed out and hopefully will lead to some of the longer term jobs that my colleague was mentioning. I guess I just want to say that I have heard some issues around safety that did not have to do with climate change, and I just want that to be noted that it is out there and perhaps the Minister needs to get a better look at that or be aware of that.
My next, though, is around the highway operations. I do note that there is a 3 million -- no, that's not quite right, 3 million, is it -- probably under $3 million -- increase there. But I'm just curious to know given the way that the supply chain issues and everything is going, but more so here around maybe the lack of staff and employment, are we anticipating any issues with maintaining the highways and operating them and any sort of future costs given that we've seen, you know, some flooding issues around -- I can't remember the name -- Sweet Creek, is that it -- down in south of Hay River and such. So can the Minister speak to whether or not we're going to even see more cost increases there? Thank you.
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