Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With that clarification, I think that’s what we were looking for.

Congratulating The Graduates Of The Deh Gah Elementary And Secondary Schools  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to honour the graduating class of Deh Gah Elementary and Secondary School. It gives me great pleasure to announce the Fort Providence 2011 high school graduates. They are: Ms. Megan Antoine, who will be attending Vancouver Island University; M

Question 162-16(6): Giant Mine Remediation And Realignment Of Ingraham Trail  Thank you. I appreciate the recognition of all the questions he threw in that quick question. Mr. Speaker, we have been working on the realignment of the Giant Mine road. We’ve been working with the Giant Mine Remediation Team over the last while. We want to ensure that whateve

Question 162-16(6): Giant Mine Remediation And Realignment Of Ingraham Trail  First of all, we haven’t decided on a final route but I think that most people agree that route one is probably the option that meets most of the needs. It reallocates the road away from the mine site, it opens up new land, and it would provide, of course, for a completely realig

Question 162-16(6): Giant Mine Remediation And Realignment Of Ingraham Trail  Right now the plan is to have all information gathered by the end of August, the final decision on realignment by the month of September, and start the engineering in the same month of September and into October. We want to have our tenders out for construction sometime in Octobe

Question 162-16(6): Giant Mine Remediation And Realignment Of Ingraham Trail  Of course, the final costs will be dependent on the option that we choose, and the price could be fairly expensive. However, we expect that the funding will be obtained from the GNWT’s Giant Mine Environmental Liability Fund that was previously established, and that’s probably

Question 163-16(6): Extended Service Options For The Motor Vehicle Office  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m glad to hear that the Member is not criticizing me for a change. ---Laughter The Yellowknife driver and vehicle licensing office handles about 60 percent of all transactions that are required in the Northwest Territories. Over the last while we’ve d

Question 163-16(6): Extended Service Options For The Motor Vehicle Office  As usual, we are ahead of the Member. ---Laughter We’ve already investigated what other jurisdictions are doing. The issues and suggestions he raises are very good ones, of course. It’s something we are considering. We need to do a number of things prior to accepting anything

Question 163-16(6): Extended Service Options For The Motor Vehicle Office  As indicated, we reduced the waiting times by approximately 50 percent, so the average now is 21 minutes of waiting. It takes about seven minutes to process the documents. So it’s less than half an hour. We are happy with that. We think if we have electronic support through a kio

Question 163-16(6): Extended Service Options For The Motor Vehicle Office  Mr. Speaker, we have issuing offices in a number of our communities. We have a mobile issuing office. We have an office here in Yellowknife. They can contact any of those. They can contact our staff. They can go on the website or they can contact my office. We’d be happy to hear

Question 150-16(6): Use Of Petroleum Products Revolving Fund  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We do have a Petroleum Products Revolving Fund that we use to soften the blow of any price increases and we have been using it. We use it in a lot of our communities. However, the petroleum products program is based on full-cost recovery. The costs are bas

Question 150-16(6): Use Of Petroleum Products Revolving Fund  We certainly can check. I believe any time there’s a price increase in the community, the community is notified along with the MLA. So that notification would have been made. We also notify and get permission from Cabinet to use the fund that is in the Petroleum Products Revolvin

Question 150-16(6): Use Of Petroleum Products Revolving Fund  The fuel subsidy is not always automatically applied. We try to utilize the fuel subsidy to lessen the impact when there is a fairly huge or large discrepancy in what was being charged for fuel from one year to the next. That’s the situation that we look at. It’s not an automatic

Question 150-16(6): Use Of Petroleum Products Revolving Fund  There’s no $5 million fund. It’s, I think, $700,000 and there’s... Sorry. There’s $420,000 left in the fund.

Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would also like to recognize the returning officer from the Deh Cho, Phoebe Parent. She has, I believe, been the returning officer for every one of the three times that I’ve run for an election, so hopefully the fourth time will be the charm. Thank you.