Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the particular portion of the highway this would apply to would be the highway from the Alberta border to Yellowknife and then a portion of the highway, I believe, into Hay River. That is what qualifies as a national highway. In there, as well as planned capital funding of our own towards the project, the federal funding would be used to finalize and possibly accelerate construction on Highway 3 between here and Fort Rae. I doubt if the acceleration would be any faster than five years because that is what the funding is based on, a five year program. We would still have to find our share of capital funding. The other portion of the highway funding that we would get from the federal government could be applied towards putting a bridge in place at Fort Providence. The estimated cost of that bridge right now is $60 million. Again, it depends on whether the funding is, in fact, put in place by the federal government in the next budget.

Previous to this the federal government had a program called Municipal Funding National, this time they have a program called Transportation Infrastructure, so that is the idea the federal government has at this time. Encouragement from the provinces and territories is for the federal government to go forward with this program. Thank you.