Again, I do not want to be too defensive, but the reality is you have 22,000 kilometres of road in the Northwest Territories. I am told the replacement value would be $1 billion and I have $19 million. There is a limitation to what we can do, that is all I am trying to say. As I said in my opening remarks yesterday, we are going to try to endeavour to do the best we can with the limited resources we have. Yes, we should be looking at what the cost is. It is no different than looking at a building, what is the cost of renovating a house versus building a new one? If there is a situation where it is cheaper or more cost-effective to build new roads, that is what we would do. The bottom line is, and as everyone is well aware, it costs an enormous amount of money to build one kilometre whether it is in the Yellowknife shield or in the Fort Smith area. We are severely restricted by the amount of capital dollars that we currently have in place.
As I stated in my opening remarks, it is certainly my intention to bring the NWT transportation strategy up to 1993 conditions and, hopefully, develop it as a negotiating package for discussions with the federal government. If there is any chance of an opportunity to negotiate a common approach to the building of roads with a joint initiative between federal and territorial funding, if that was to come about, that would make a significant difference to what we could accomplish.