Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Maybe the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs should have a serious look at purchasing the equipment necessary since this is a health issue. I am not sure what kind of communications there are between the Department of Transportation and the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. If there is any kind of communication, they would have known that the highway has been chipsealed to Fort Resolution on Highway No. 6. What does it take? Do you have to wait until they pave the road right to the community and only then is it feasible to bring the chipsealing to that community? Does it make sense just to drive the one hour down the road and there is Fort Resolution and there is the chipsealing equipment? What kind of communication is there if they can't even realize that? There is an arena being built in Lutselk'e and there is a requirement for crushed rock. Why not kill two birds with one stone, Mr. Chairman. Sometimes I question the thinking by departments. This is one area and one time I do have to question it. Is it politics? Yes, it is politics. Obviously, it's politics. Why do you think we are chipsealing Tuktoyaktuk first? If you are trying to exclude politics from this, then we are fooling ourselves.

In fact, Mr. Chairman, why are we even discussing this? This chipsealing should have been done years ago. The only reason it's done now is we are pushing it from this side of the House using the health issue. I do recommend and strongly suggest that the department get together with the Department of Transportation and see so that the left hand knows what the right hand is doing in this matter. I do agree with the Minister, the money is short and maybe we do need more money in this program. This is one of the areas also, Mr. Chairman, that by chipsealing community roads, putting in decent sidewalks, reinforces the positive psyche of people in the communities leading to healthier lives. This is part of the For a Better Tomorrow program. I am not agreeable to the Minister's answers. In fact, I am a little peeved at them. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.