Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is directed toward the Honourable Manitok Thompson, Minister of MACA. Mr. Speaker, my question regards calcium chloride for municipal roads. As you know, Mr. Speaker, the Department of Transportation has been using calcium chloride for road maintenance wherever they cannot afford to have hard top, which is commonly known as "poor man's hard top". Mr. Speaker, it is obvious that the people from the small community from a city like Yellowknife would proceed in putting two, three layers of hard top on the road and we then wonder why conditions of the roads in the communities have to be in such terrible shape compared to the streets in the cities and towns. Mr. Speaker, my community of Tuktoyaktuk has been trying to obtain an increase in the amount of calcium chloride for the community in order to help maintain the road conditions in that community. Mr. Speaker,
I would also like to point out that gravel is also very expensive and in that particular community, if and when it is available, so calcium is very important to the community to help offset the cost of obtaining more gravel. My question to the Minister of MACA is, would her department consider increasing the annual supply of calcium chloride for the hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.