Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to address my question to the Minister of Transportation, and it follows up on the question asked by Mr. Bell earlier today. I believe in one of the responses to Mr. Bell I heard the Minister say that he believed that industry would go with the truck that would best suit the load.

Mr. Speaker, that seems to assume that trucking firms have trucks of all sorts sitting around. I can assure the Minister that at $160,000 a crack, that is not the case. I have been assured of that by members of the trucking industry. I think it is very important that members of the public know what it is going to cost to transport goods to their community.

I would like to then ask the Minister, why can we not use weight to determine the amount of toll that is paid on a vehicle? Why, rather than axles, do we not just weigh the vehicles at the weigh scales when they come into the Territories and calculate the tolls based on the weight of the vehicles? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.