Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Department of Transportation has been working on the highway strategy. We started off in June with the stakeholder workshop and as a result of it we have been able to establish stakeholder advisory committees for the three different strategies, the Slave/Province corridor as well as the Inuvik/Tuktoyaktuk road. We have not developed one for the Mackenzie highway stakeholder advisory committee. We are trying to get all the political interests on stream here, but these other two have had stakeholder committees established. We are anticipating that a meeting of the Mackenzie committee will be held in the next several weeks.
However, three studies are underway related to the Slave Geological Province transportation corridor. These studies include engineering, environmental and need feasibility analysis. These are underway. Two studies are in request for proposal stages related to the Inuvik/Tuktoyaktuk road. These studies include the environmental and the benefit cost analysis. You may have seen them in the papers. The department is undertaking the engineering studies for the Mackenzie Valley highway and the Inuvik/Tuktoyaktuk road as an in-house exercise. We are doing it internally and they are also underway. This is the status of the highway strategies today. Thank you.