Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, I would like to elaborate on what Mr. Krutko was saying. Even communities like Lutselk'e can get equipment in during the summer on a barge, a paver to get the dust under control. Also, after talking with the Department of Transportation, I am told that they will no longer be using calcium for dust control because it is a hazardous material and it cannot be used anymore. So we will have no alternative but to pave all the roads in all the communities.
Just a good example of what a tax-based community gets and what the small communities do not get, if you look at Yellowknife alone, you have 10 kilometres of six-inch asphalt that is funded totally by the Department of Transportation. You do not have that in the smaller communities. In Hay River, you have three or four kilometres of road that are six-inch asphalt. You also have that in Inuvik. Fort Simpson just recently got theirs. The funding formula is not used when they fund asphalt or dust control, but they do give it and other perks.
In order to be fair, if we were to take that asphalt and set it out to a three-quarter inch layer, we could pave all the small communities to the quality here, but because of the environmental hazard that calcium chloride is doing, I think it is only fair that they pave all the streets. Just give us a little chip seal. We will maintain it.
If MACA wants Transportation to do it, like they do it for Yellowknife and the larger communities, maybe that is what MACA has to do. They have to go to them, because they already are...it is freebies for these large communities. Thank you.