Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess that is one of the things that concerns me with the way the government plans. The Minister just stated that in order to address this highway, or any other highway in the Territories, they try to address where the need is the greatest. Does that mean that the communities where they do not feel the need is the greatest get overlooked? I look at the government and I think, look at the thousands, probably millions, of dollars they spent to pave toward Pine Point because the need was the greatest.
Now you have a highway paved into nowhere, where there was a community and there is nothing now. You then started to take the Pine Point junction highway and pave it toward Fort Smith. Thirty miles of that highway was pavement because there were people in Pine Point who had cottages out at Sandy Lake, and they probably do not use them now. You stopped right there without any future plans for paving. That is the irritating part, that you go where the need is the greatest. Where is Pine Point today?
All I am asking you is to continue with the plan that your Department officials started seven years ago. I seem to get the same redundant response of cost and benefit. Is it fair that because there is no demand and you do not have a cost analysis with respect to how much it is going to cost for that highway that they have to maintain the gravel highway that they have? I am really getting irritated by receiving the response of "on cost benefit" when there was never any consideration to even do a cost benefit analysis. I am really irritated by the fact that you paved -- and spent thousands of tax dollars -- to a community where you do not even have a community anymore, to an area where you had to service these elite cottages, and never continued completing your plan. You are not even going to consider completing your plan. I would like to know if you would reconsider looking at that highway and finish what you started to do?
Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask the Minister, once again, will he consider my request in completing the highway that they started to pave back in the middle 1980s, and complete the work that his department took on? Thank you.