Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The reason that route was chosen is our proposal, called Corridors for Canada, looks at two corridors, one into the mining area and one into the oil and gas area. The only current route into the mining area is through Highway No. 4, Tibbitt Lake and up into the area. There is no road through the Dogrib area. There is not any agreement that I have right now from the chiefs to even build a road through that area, although we did take some steps to set up a steering committee to begin looking at it. We could not include that as an alternate route when there was no agreement to have one. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Joe Handley on Question 271-14(5): Highway Infrastructure Development Proposal
In the Legislative Assembly on June 17th, 2002. See this statement in context.
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Question 271-14(5): Highway Infrastructure Development Proposal
Item 6: Oral Questions
June 16th, 2002
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