Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On Transportation, by general comments yesterday, I was talking about my support for finishing the highway from Wrigley north through Fort Norman and Norman Wells. Yesterday I was quoting some prices I got from 1985. That is the last time that I received some figures. I was going to offer those figures as something to start with.

I had talked about it yesterday, and today I am just going to say that in the area of transportation, we also have airports. In most of the communities we have airports in my area, but Nahanni Butte is another community in my constituency that requires an airport. They have a small strip and sometimes it is not possible for the plane to land there. The only transportation in there is through air in the summertime, so it is necessary to have an airport in Nahanni Butte. Also, they have buffalo there too, so this time of the year the pilots have to fly past the airport to check the airstrip to see that there are no buffalo droppings on the airstrip, because that is dangerous.

Anyway, that is just a side point, but in the rest of my region we have winter roads, and in a question the other day the Minister said they were going to review the winter roads budget. I am concerned about it. We have winter roads into Trout Lake and Nahanni Butte, and there is the construction of a road out of Jean Marie but that is not going to be completed for the next few years. These three communities require winter roads and if there are going to be some changes to it, it is certainly going to affect the people in these communities, and I have some concern about it. This is for the people that rely on winter roads. That is my general comment. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.