Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, what the honourable Member is referring to is also in the strategy. Perhaps it is in the document. It may not spell out that we are talking about oil and gas exploration. We are looking at all types of different exploration. I know that if we have a good infrastructure like the highway in the western NWT down the Mackenzie Valley, it will open up the country for all kinds of different activity, including oil and gas exploration, mineral exploration, perhaps logging, and tourism. This is a good opportunity to do that. I agree that we should do something like that and that it will help the economy in the long-run. This department is working with the new Department or Resource, Wildlife and Economic Development which is a newly formed department that we have to work together, cooperate and see how we could work together to develop some sort of a strategy on how to build roads in the north. Thank you.
Jim Antoine on Question 387-13(3): Revised Transportation Infrastructure Strategy
In the Legislative Assembly on October 3rd, 1996. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 387-13(3): Revised Transportation Infrastructure Strategy
Question 387-13(3): Revised Transportation Infrastructure Strategy
Item 6: Oral Questions
October 2nd, 1996
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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