Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, when paving was started on this highway seven years ago, the department never intended to pave the highway right through at that point, but to pave it at some point in the future. What we will have to do, if we are going to pave the highway, is to do some construction in areas where we would have to widen where it is too narrow to pave, and also we will prioritize our projects based on benefit and cost analysis.

Mr. Chairman, we do have a plan but unfortunately the plan, or the expenditure that is given to our department, does not allow us to address all of the requests that are coming into our department, such as reconstruction of the highways, maintenance of the highways or even paving the highways. We could only address these in some areas.

Mr. Chairman, we are willing to sit down and see if the costs and benefits in paving the highway override other priorities, and then we will probably change some of the projects. If the Legislative Assembly wants us to do that. At the moment, our information tells us that the work that is needed the most is on Highway 3, where the need is the greatest, and the usage of the highway is the greatest. Thank you.