Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if this department had the funding, we would do a lot more than we are. Currently, we have an existing winter road system north of Wrigley into the Sahtu area through Tulita and Norman Wells up to Fort Good Hope. We try to open it every year and this year we just opened the connection about 10 days ago. We finally opened up the winter road into the Sahtu area. We are scheduled to shut it down March 17th. It is a very short window. In going to Tulita last weekend, the discussion was, why can we not do more work on the right-of-way that is already in existence? We do. Every year this department has some funds to give $700,000 a year to the winter road improvements. That is just doing a little more to improve what we already have. That is stretching it quite a ways. The intention here, with the limited funding we have, is just to improve it. They improve some of the crossings and stream crossings along the winter road system. It is not going along as fast as everybody wanted it too, but that is the best we could do at the present time. Connecting the winter road from Fort Good Hope to the Inuvik area is a task I have asked the department to look at. With the information that I received from the department, with the limited amount of money that we have, it is impossible to do at this point. Thank you.
Jim Antoine on Question 370-13(5): Highway Construction Strategy
In the Legislative Assembly on February 18th, 1998. See this statement in context.
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Question 370-13(5): Highway Construction Strategy
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 17th, 1998
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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