Mr. Speaker, earlier I quoted the former Minister of Transportation on the need to develop a transportation access beyond our frontiers. I would also like to remind the House of what the honourable Member for Hay River said about building highways to our resources. According to Hansard of October 29, 1990, he referred to the new NWT transportation strategy and stated that: "I think that once you take the inventory of what is in the NWT and what the potentials are, and then you start working around with where your best roads would lie or best transportation corridors would lie, I think that makes good economic and good developmental sense."

Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Economic Development and Tourism. Would the Minister agree with me that one of the main barriers to developing economic potential of the Mackenzie Valley is the inadequate and incomplete transportation corridor throughout the region? Mahsi.