Mr. Speaker, I mentioned there are actually two different projects. One would be within the larger project. The larger project is the road from Aklavik to the Dempster Highway, and the price tag on that is $100 million. The community did discuss it with the department. There has been no thought to take it anywhere from there because of the price tag. The department also has no funding or mandate to build new roads.
It is the understanding of the policy department that the federal government has the responsibility for new roads. However, we have been addressing a portion of that highway with the community, which at the present time we have been funding as an access road program. On an ongoing basis, we have been identifying $50,000 a year to that particular project in Aklavik.
At this point in time, there were no plans to change that. There is still a plan to work for the community on having that portion of the road pummeled on a regular basis.