Mr. Chairman, the intent of this motion was to ensure that all highways are being addressed. As Mr. Gargan said, the second highway built was from Hay River to Yellowknife. The first highway being from the border to Hay River and then to Fort Smith. The committee was concerned that funding is being spent not only for initial paving, but for repaving when there are many highways in the Northwest Territories that haven't even received initial paving.
We recognize that our job is to be guided by the principle, to ensure equity, fairness and universality of benefits to all residents in the territories. I certainly was concerned, as a Member, that there was no equity and fairness and universality of benefits. In this particular budget, there wasn't any money whatsoever for addressing highway 5, for example. In order to ensure that all highways are looked at in a fair manner, committee Members felt the need to look at moving some capital dollars in the 1994-95 budget to address highways which some Minister had started way back in 1986 and left. Such highways were never dealt with on a continual basis.
We are asking Members to support the motion to ensure that funding allocated through the Department of Transportation is done so in a fair manner. Thank you.