I know that the federal government has been interested for a long time in getting this road up the Mackenzie Valley. It was a big issue during the 1970s and there was tremendous debate over the need to get a corridor because they were talking about a pipeline and all kinds of things related to oil and gas in the Beaufort Sea. Again, I never got a good sense of the economics of it. What exactly was going to be achieved by it, how much money would it cost and so on? It is possible to get an update on what the thinking currently is on the value of a Mackenzie Valley road? At one time, if you will recall, there was this dream of having a road all the way to the Arctic coast, but that is there now to some degree because of the Dempster. It does not come through our part of the world, but there is a way to get that far north which takes you through the Yukon and only partially through the territories. What is the current thinking about the value of that Mackenzie Valley corridor?
Brian Lewis on Bill 17: Appropriation Act, No. 2, 1993-94
In the Legislative Assembly on March 9th, 1993. See this statement in context.
Bill 17: Appropriation Act, No. 2, 1993-94
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 8th, 1993
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Brian Lewis Yellowknife Centre
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