Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Looking at the concern and recognizing that the highways have been paved, basically, to address the issue of safety and to address the issue of ensuring that we try to place forth proper highways in the Territories, and recognizing that Highway No. 5 does have a good solid base, it is not like many of the other highways where the base has to be dug up and re-formed. I would like to know if the Minister would reconsider and look at the highway needs in respect to paving, prior to 1997.
The concern I have is that this highway has been partially paved away back in 1984 and nothing has been done since then. You travel from the Pine Point turnoff into Fort Smith and you go 30 miles of pavement, and all of a sudden by Sandy Lake it comes to a dead halt and you go onto gravel. I do not think that is proper planning. Would the Minister reconsider finishing up what they started to do in 1984, prior to 1997?