Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I am speaking in favour of this motion. Mr. Chairman, what this motion speaks to is that Municipal and Community Affairs and the Department of Transportation develop a partnership to start a program, Mr. Chairman, to start a program to look at paving streets on the highway system. This is not stating they have to do it. This is a program to see the viability of it.
Mr. Chairman, you know, as a government we provide programs and services. Unfortunately, most of these programs and services are not something that everybody in the community benefits from. The road infrastructure, the paving of the streets and sidewalks is something that the whole community can benefit from. It does not matter the age or level of activity of individuals. They can benefit from this.
This is a very good motion. I think it speaks to this government's commitment to the communities, to the viability of those communities. I think it will go a long way, optically, for those communities. Spiritually, physically and mentally it will be beneficial to the people of those communities. Tourism would benefit in those communities from just this kind of activity, Mr. Chairman.
I encourage my colleagues in the House to support this motion to develop a program to look at paving the streets, the main streets to begin with, Mr. Chairman, in our communities in the Northwest Territories. Let us show the people out there that we do care about them, that we do value them as communities and as partners. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.