Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I thank the Member for the question. Part of our strategy in obtaining a larger portion of that $600 million was to try to convince the federal Minister that we are the last portion of the national highway system that does not have hard-top and we still drive on gravel. We thought that if there was some way to embarrass the federal government into putting more towards us than would be allocated to the rest of the country, we would take that. We tried that.
I also invited the federal Minister to Yellowknife with the hopes that we could take him for a ride down Highway No. 3, but he declined. He said he had already been to the Territories twice, but I believe that was as a Minister of the Armed Forces at that time.
In regards to myself as a Minister being embarrassed about the condition of Highway No. 3, I do not share embarrassment alone. If I do not have money to increase the reconstruction phase, it is simply because this Assembly has not given me the money. Give me the money and I will pass it onto the department and we will increase the reconstruction program. Thank you.