Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have some questions for Minister Steen, the Minister of Transportation, about tolls, taxes, those kinds of things. Specifically, the proposed highway truck toll and his response today. He indicated that the information package that he had developed would allow a person to work out the amount of the highway permit fee for any kind of truck carrying a load between any two points in the territorial public highway system.
This may in fact be the case, but I think what residents are interested in is a manner that they might be able to figure out what a certain pound of goods is going to cost them coming from the south and arriving at a certain destination, for instance, building materials coming from Edmonton and landing in Yellowknife. Unfortunately, the Minister could not tell us that because it entirely depends on what kind of truck they might arrive on.
Mr. Speaker, I am wondering if the Minister can give us some sort of response as to why there is not some sort of ability to figure out, on a per pound basis, what kind of impact the toll will have. Thank you.