Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am trying to keep my answers short. First of all, this is not a Department of Transportation initiative alone. This is a Cabinet, government initiative. The Minister of Finance is involved. The Minister of Finance knows the whole situation and is aware of the amount of money and resources needed to bring the highways up to standard.

I would like to point out one thing, Mr. Speaker. The Member suggested that 43,000 people could not stand a tax of this nature in order to bring the highways up. Nowhere in the proposal is there a suggestion that this is a tax on the people. This is a fee applied to trucks that are using our highways. That is the way we are looking at it. We are not trying to tax 43,000 people. We are trying to make this apply to the resource sector because they are not paying taxes in the Northwest Territories, as we see it. This is a way of trying to collect from them. Thank you.