There are about four or five communities left in the Northwest Territories without airstrips of different degrees and Nahanni Butte is one of them. There was an agreement reached on airports between the federal and territorial governments to upgrade and build new airports in certain communities. Nahanni Butte, as I understand it, was not part of that agreement. Whatever happens in Nahanni Butte will have to come out of our existing resources. I would put the question back to the honourable Member by saying, if this is a priority in the eyes of the people in Nahanni Butte, we will endeavour, in our capital exercise, to fit it in somewhere in the plan. It was not part of the initial federal/territorial government agreement to build these "b" and "c" airports.

It would be our intent to incorporate it into the overall capital plan within our existing resources. I do not know when that can happen, but it certainly appears that is where the money would have to come from.