Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the department is fully aware of the possible consequences of further resource development north of Yellowknife and the section of the highway between Rae and Yellowknife which is the uncompleted section. It is an area where we have to concentrate our efforts.

As the development and the amount of traffic increases certainly the road is going to be used a lot more and at the current level the maintenance will have to be looked at, but as I said earlier in my answer, the department is looking at this scenario and we are planning a strategy on how we could deal with it. We are developing a strategy plan, as I said in the last session, Mr. Speaker, when I talked about the future of this department and the type of work that we need to do.

We need to develop partnerships with the industry and this government as well as the federal government and perhaps different corporations out there. We have to be innovative in our thinking in trying to address these major costs because the construction of this section of the highway is going to be a very major cost and the type of funding that we have currently is not adequate enough to do the type of work we need to do.

So, we have to be innovative and we have to look at new ways of how to do this work. Thank you.