Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Thank you, Madam Chairperson. That is all the questions I have for now.
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Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Thank you, Madam Chairperson. Trust me, Mr. Minister, that this is just a commitment from yourself and your department. One of the priorities of the government is to work with the community to develop initiatives, develop community empowerment. What I am asking for is a commit
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Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Thank you, Madam Chairperson. One last question, Mr. Minister. Maybe I could get a commitment from yourself as a Minister on behalf of your department to work with the community of Fort Resolution to develop a proposal so they can work through community empowerment to block fun
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Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Thank you, Madam Chairperson. One of the top priorities of the government is community empowerment, and through community empowerment will this Minister commit to or look at negotiating block funding arrangements through community empowerment for Fort Resolution community groups
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Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Thank you, Madam Chairperson. Also, we have to be very cautious and the Minister has the ability as well as the qualifications to look at those things, that is your background and we have to be very cautious about not only our highways, but our ditches and drainage are so import
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Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess the concern I would have is the possibility of accelerating Highway 3, and even with the dollars that we have today and where they are being spent, that we have to be cautious that we do not deteriorate our other highways to the extent where you
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Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The residents of Fort Smith and Fort Resolution over the years enjoyed having a paved highway and it is paved from Hay River to Pine Point and then it is paved to the Big Buffalo River Junction. It is a very nice highway, well maintained by Nuni Develop
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Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess the best to describe it is to tell the Minister a bit of a story about this highway superintendent out of the Hay River region. One of them was born and raised in the Northwest Territories and last spring, I think it was, I was in Fort Resolutio
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Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Under this region and under Highway 4,0-67, 69, reconstruction, $550, 1999-2000 for a total project cost of $15.150 million. There is a committee recommendation to see if this amount can be decreased and put into the main highway system? Will the Minis
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Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Also, not unlike Yellowknife airport, Yellowknife airport sits on a large land base, so do the airports in our communities. Also, there is much available land near the airport and on transportation land, now the government's land. I know there is some
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Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Under airports in the Fort Smith region, Fort Resolution has an airport. At the present time, the maintenance, I believe, has been turned over to the community of that airport and the community will take it over. The traffic has reduced quite a bit in
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Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So then Members cannot really consider this project. It is committed, the money is being spent already, the contract has been let, so this committee motion from the Government Operations Committee should have saved the paper it is written on, I guess, o
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Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Was any of this $550,000 spent as of today?
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Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Some of this money is spent already? The $550,000?
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Committee Motion 16-13(7): Giving Priority To Accelerating Highway 3 Reconstruction Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In your budget, Mr. Minister, and also through the committee report, committee Members would like to see the amount decreased on Highway 4. This is the road that goes out, the majority of it is used by the diamond haulers and all that to move equipment
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