Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am not 100 percent sure, but I would suggest that the national highway program is not strictly a federal program. It was a program agreed to by the provinces and the territories, as well as the federal government. I am told by my honourable colleague here, Mr. Roland, that part of the National Highway Strategy was to connect capital cities. Yellowknife is a capital city and I suppose until Fort McPherson becomes the next capital, then we are not going to get highway funding down the Dempster or a recognition of the Dempster Highway as well as the capital funding. I do not know.

Again like I said, this was made long before my time that these decisions were made as to what portions of the highway get what portions of the funding. In response to the Member's question as to this government's share of the funding, like I said earlier, Mr. Speaker, the department gets its money for highway maintenance and highway construction from this Assembly. If the Assembly places highways as their priority, then the department will respond accordingly. But right now, highways is not a priority in this government. Priority is education and health. I cannot speak towards whether we are going to obtain any more funding than we already have. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.