Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am glad the Minister brought it up. It seems like it is a good plan that when we do our budget session, we put a certain amount of funds, maybe we might have to take it out of certain areas that already have good highway systems and do a study on roads that were accessible before. There has been a road alignment going north to Rae Rock Mine and also to Great Bear Lake. That is all land, winter routes which, if a feasibility study was done, it would take only one bridge to get to Wha Ti. We are putting about seven bridges up into the Mackenzie Region. Maybe a bridge over here, if we put this plan together, we can extend the winter road life by three weeks if we had an all-land route.

This route goes all the way to Rae Lakes, just north of Rae Lakes and it is all on land. It was once used before. It would be easily reconstructed to work for us in this time of global warming. As we are putting a really aggressive budget out there, I think we should also be aggressive in planning for the future for these communities and the global warming and greenhouse gas emissions. We can work together with hydro. We can do a lot of things.

I think this is where maybe Transportation should take the lead into working with other departments and maybe using the infrastructure that was there in the past and putting them back to working conditions so we can use them. Thank you.