I do not know what I can speak on outside the budget, but seeing that there has been an increase in the budget, I would like to ask the Minister exactly, have they considered relooking at the different strategies that have been done to include our roads to be constructed to communities that do not have access to date?

We announced a $100 million initiative that this government has taken on, but yet there are communities out there that want to have permanent access. In my riding, in Aklavik, there was a petition filed in this House. Yet from the response to the petition, it seems like this department is not really interested because it does not benefit the non-renewable resource sector, it benefits the people of the North. I would like to ask the Minister exactly where is the priority of this government when it comes to the residents of the Northwest Territories overseeing the non-renewable sector?