Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to go back a question I had yesterday about how the department kept turning over services, like municipal boundaries, to the communities. I just did a calculation on your study of traffic volume on Highways No. 3, No. 4 and the Yellowknife local.

I received the traffic volume report for Rae, on Highway No. 3. For 90 kilometres, the daily traffic volume average is 5,480. They are getting $52,085 for maintenance, compared to Highway No. 4 to Prelude, which is only 66.2 kilometres. The cost to maintain that, and I am talking about winter maintenance, is $64,960 for 66 kilometres. The traffic is only 1,460 average daily. Then I come down to the Yellowknife local, where I am saying the contract should be turned over on a formula basis, like Municipal and Community Affairs does for the communities, because the cost for ten kilometres for Yellowknife local roads is $59,024.

It is more than 90 kilometres of highway to Rae for maintenance. Just looking at this and looking at our territorial deficit, we can see where the problem is. Our department is not operating efficiently. Our people are not doing their job. Thank you.