Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will be voting in favour of this motion as well, Mr. Chairman, as many times I have driven that highway and after you have just driven for 20 hours or whatever, you do not feel like coming through a road that is like a snake and very dangerous, particularly when it is wet, when it is raining. When you are tired, it is a very scary situation. I can just imagine how tourists feel when they have
just been driving for a long time with their expensive motorhomes. Mr. Chairman, this is not a good way to greet those tourists who are here to spend hard-earned dollars in our area. I do not believe that waiting for eight to ten years or, as some people have mentioned, even longer, to finish the road is the way to go.
I think that we can accelerate it, but at the same time I would like to ensure that the benefits in building this road actually goes to the people of the north. We cannot accelerate it to such a degree that we have to use all types of southern construction companies to build this road. We have to ensure that northern companies get these contracts and that they have training programs in place so that local people can be trained to drive trucks and whatnot, so that we can have a bettertrained workforce who can move back and forth from working on highways for municipalities, in open pit mines or wherever. Mr. Chairman, as I said, I will be voting in favour of this motion, but I want to ensure that this is not accelerated to such a degree that the benefits do not accrue properly to the people and the businesses of the Northwest Territories. Thank you.