Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The department is working towards establishing more and more overland routes, you would call them, or in fact working towards our Highways Strategy, establishing all-weather roads into communities, that we can justify constructing these routes into these communities.

However, as the Member is well aware, the department has to work with Indian Affairs on this because it is Indian Affairs that is responsible for the construction of new roads over and above the existing road systems we have, and that includes the winter roads. We are working with Indian Affairs as to how we can get sufficient funding towards constructing new roads into communities that are not on the present highway systems.