Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the request by the residents of Inuvik and the community of Tuktoyaktuk was to have an eventual highway connecting the two communities; as a result of that -- as in the question from the honourable Member for Inuvik -- is that highway.
There have been plans put in place from the studies done in the 1990 report. At that time, the type of road that was contemplated, if it was ever to go ahead, was categorized as a collector. There are different classes of highways and roads important to the Department of Transportation.
The class of arterial is a type of road such as we have on Highways I and 3, leading out of Yellowknife down into the South, where you have an inter-urban type of highway system which is probably the highest class of highways we have in the North. A collector class is the type that will allow access to land and to urban areas, and also has a connection to the arterial class. For example, people know that, in the southern part of the NWT, it would be similar to Highway 6 that connects Fort Resolution to Highway 1.
Finally, we have a local class of highways and roads which is land access, recreation access. An example would be an access road connecting the Paradise Gardens in Hay River and Sandy Lake access. These are the types of classes that the Department of Transportation has. Thank you.