Thank you, Madam Speaker. The fact that the Izok Lake deposit is no longer on the agenda to be mined in the near future makes me think that people will now talk about no longer having a need for infrastructure, because one of the dreams of Yellowknifers was to have a road that would eventually go to Izok Lake and then to the coast. Many people in Yellowknife, in the mining community, knew as much as a year ago, Madam Speaker, that there were many deposits in the world that could be mined a lot cheaper than the one at Izok Lake. There was some degree of scepticism that this project would proceed, only to find out that the road to Yellowknife and beyond, along the Ingraham Trail was built at a time when there was a vision of a road to resources. I was very happy this summer when Mr. Todd asked us to contribute to a revision of his transportation strategy. Yellowknife MLAs agreed that one priority that would certainly deserve to be considered and included in this strategy was a continuation of that trail to McKay Lake, which is in the vicinity of many deposits, approximate to the diamond fields and would be an advantage to our economy and to an eventual transportation corridor for the north.
So, Madam Speaker, it remains a priority for Yellowknifers to have a corridor which would make those resources around the Lac de Gras area more accessible so other places in the Northwest Territories could take some economic advantage of that development. Thank you very much.
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