Mr. Speaker, certainly as Finance Minister, I will work with all the Ministers in ensuring that we have good business plans, good budgets and good initiatives and so on. However, once the budgets are determined and are within the mandate of individual Ministers, they are the ones who will take the lead on that.

With regard to the benefits to all people in the North, I think improved highway structures have benefits for everyone. If we take the North Slave communities, for example, then whether those communities are on roads or not, they will benefit. The off-road communities will benefit because the highway toll structure will free up dollars that can be used to build winter roads, as I mentioned before.

Many people who have access to communities by winter road use the all-weather highway during the winter when they drive out of their communities. I think there will be benefits in terms of travelling more reliably on better roads eventually.

I think this is a benefit to everybody and in the long run everyone will see that they are benefiting, whether they are on a highway or not. Thank you.