Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I think it is needed in our communities, especially the communities that have a hard time accessing gravel, communities such as Aklavik and I would like to get assurances from the Minister, if we could get something like that in writing by way of change of the department's policy in regard to in most cases they may restrict you from accessing this gravel.

I also understand from the Minister that it has to be replaced and I think it is appropriate. I just have a question to the Minister of Finance, what does a Member have to do to receive similar treatment? We all know we have bad roads in our communities and I mentioned the problem that we have in the community of Tsiigehtchic because of traffic from the oil and gas development that happened there, where they had to construct a bypass winter road around the communities because it was ripping down the power lines.

I would like to ask the Minister, if this project has been available to the Minister's riding, what are you going to do to ensure communities have similar opportunities to access funds similar to this to construct roads because of the effects of development in our communities?