Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we are talking about two different things here.
In the Northwest Territories we already have and we are working on it in our capital budget, what we are going to be doing in the area of transportation and it takes into account our reconstruction program over the next fives year or so.
We are also talking about a proposal that the federal government has made. There is some material that has come out of a meeting that had taken place among transportation Ministers and the federal government to look at a cost-sharing program.
They have made some suggestions that in order to take a look at upgrading some of the transportation infrastructure across Canada that they go about it in a certain fashion. There is nothing concrete, Mr. Speaker. It is unfortunate. As I said earlier on we should exercise caution when it comes to dealing with this.
As much as we would like to see new federal money come into the territories we must be cautious that we do not build up our expectations. Right now, even the federal government is being very tight-lipped on the whole matter. They are merely proposals and suggestions. They are merely there for discussion and there is nothing committed. No one has committed any dollars to anybody yet.
They have made some suggestions as to how much could be spent in the provinces and in the territories. I will endeavour to get some of this information out of the documentation that we received to the Members so they can look at it.
Right now, I say that we are continuing our reconstruction program as we had planned in our budget. There is no new money.