Transport committee  I think it's fair to say that any consideration of a corridor is going to gravitate towards an east-west flow. At some point, we have to start looking north-south and our primary focus has been to at least establish a premise for going north, off whatever east-west corridors may

Transport committee  I think so. I don't know how you have a broader body dictate which is the most effective corridor especially when you're going across time zones and provincial boundaries and all the rest of that stuff. I think my view is that rather than being a push from the top, it should be a

Transport committee  We are planning to build an all-weather road, but it's going to hook up to a winter road. The winter road is in the NWT and they're looking to convert their winter road to an all-weather road for exactly the reasons you've raised. Their winter-road season is getting shorter every

Transport committee  The short answer is yes. Generally, by being eligible for a separate pool, it's very helpful to us to ensure that we at least have access to something. In most other programs—we did apply under the building Canada fund, for example—we were lumped in with projects in Toronto, Lo

Transport committee  It needs to be larger, quite a bit larger. On one project, our initial application was for $415 million, whereas the total territorial allocation was $400 million. We don't really have access to what the infrastructure bank is currently offering because they're looking for projec

Transport committee  From our regional perspective, this is the priority. It allows us to connect to the south on a seasonal basis at least. It gives us access to a bunch of known deposits in the interior of the mainland that are currently inaccessible and really expensive to access—only by helicopte

Transport committee  I'd be happy to.

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Continuing on the second point, our view is the NTCF is not large enough in its current form to do any more than to support small components of larger projects. The NTCF can help to remove bottlenecks within existing corridors, but cannot fund wholesale t

Transport committee  Thank you, Madame Chair. I'm going to continue on with Stanley's remarks; we work on an integrated basis. We like that the second call from the national trade corridors fund was exclusively for territorial projects. This is a recognition by Transport Canada that basic trade infr

Finance committee  There are multiple things to consider. At a minimum, government needs to ensure that the private sector's participation has been maximized, as much as it can be maximized. We've done our best to try to identify user groups and quite often it's difficult to talk speculatively abou

Finance committee  I'm going to go back to my initial comment. When I said not enough bang, the bank right now only considers pure return on investment in terms of how they calculate what's a useful project to look at. If the bank would consider tax revenues to Canada or the territorial governmen

Finance committee  I have just one quick comment on CanNor. As a result of multiple applications from intervenor groups in the environmental assessment processes, CanNor said it wasn't going to fund any environmental assessment activities. It hasn't considered the fact that some groups want to be p

Finance committee  I have just one other thing to add. It's awful watching two white guys from the south talk this way, but at the heart of it we're hired to execute the vision of the Inuit. It's their vision and their product, and we're here to help execute it. Our project is unique in that sense.

Finance committee  The previous Government of Nunavut was a co-proponent with us. The premier was a staunch advocate of what we were trying to do. He had the support of cabinet, and we worked very well with the senior bureaucrats who were put in charge of executing their role. The new government c

Finance committee  Yes.