Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The highway maintenance activity only applies to the designated public highway system, as defined under the Public Highways Act and its regulations. No maintenance occurs on municipal highways or roads.
It happens to be that in many of our communities, the highway system extends itself to within the boundaries of the municipality, but they are still designated as public highways. Each case has a different reason, the primary reason being those were sections of highway transferred from the federal government to the responsibility of the territorial government through the two specific transfers.
The item for maintenance of those activities is included within the operations and maintenance appropriation for the highways activity within the interim appropriation. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.