Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Transportation, the Honourable Vince Steen. First of all, I would like to thank the Minister for providing me with a written response to my concerns about the maintenance of territorial highways.
In the letter of June 23rd, he wrote:
"The Department of Transportation maintenance expenditures by highway, give no indication of its maintenance priority. The priority to keep the territorial highway system safely passable is the same everywhere. Achieving that priority does cost more for one highway than another, but all of our highways have the same priority. They are to remain safely passable."
When I received this letter, I thought about the times I am driving back to Rae, and then I took a ride on Highway No. 4, to see the difference. I found out that Highway No. 3 to Rae was not safe. The road on Highway No. 4, or the Ingraham Trail, was in better condition than Highway No. 3.
I am just wondering, Mr. Minister, the priorities that your staff set, did they go to Rae? Did they ever drive that highway? Thank you, Mr. Minister.