Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Throughout this session and last session, there has been a number of questions raised to the Minister of Transportation regarding the methodology that is used to determine what winter roads would be built, what improvements would be done to the highway system.
Throughout it, he has maintained that there is only one factor that he takes into consideration, safety. To compound the issue, he has indicated to the Member for North Slave that the winter road in the North Slave is not being paid for by the government. The Department of Transportation is not in the business of developing roads to resources, but this is not a safety issue. In actual fact, we are developing this road to assist a company to access the resources. Where is the standard? We say one thing in the House and then we have another issue that totally goes against the grain.