Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The intention of the access road program was to try and accommodate communities that wanted to have access to the surrounding areas, their hunting areas. It has become a very popular program. The amount is not that much at the present time. Every year there are more and more requests. What this access road has done is provide the funds directly to some of the municipalities to utilize and start putting trails into their hunting areas, perhaps even good tour sites. The response which I gave the honourable Member in the fall was to address his concern of putting a major infrastructure in the Delta to connect Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk. At the present time, the amount to cover it in this area is quite substantial. There have been feasibility studies conducted which put it into the $150 million to $160 million range. The federal government has responsibility in this price range to do a major highway system. The access road is on a much smaller scale. If you look at the Jean Marie River access roads, it's been in the works for some time. It's been approved by previous governments to complete the road. That would probably be the last big expenditure in this particular access road program.
I don't know whether this answer satisfies the honourable Member. The reply I provided to him was for quite a larger amount of money than what we are talking about in the access road program. Yes, we have funds to put in access road. Many communities have utilized this and more and more communities are requesting this access road program.