Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I think I responded to the point the Member raised again yesterday. However, since our discussions yesterday, I went over with the department why Fort Resolution wasn't earlier in the schedule.

What I have back from the department is that Transportation has already crushed material for Resolution. It is stockpiled there. They are not charging us at this time for that work but the material is stockpiled there for future use. Transportation has advised us that when they're doing the actual chip sealing part of the program, they try to arrange it so that they hit as many communities in an area as possible to bring the costs of the chipsealing machinery down. They own chipsealing equipment but it is only for repairs rather than for the actual laying of the chipsealing. The Member was right when he said that chipsealing is generally contracted to private enterprise. They do supply the chipsealing material. So what Transportation is trying to do is tie chipsealing in one community with chip sealing or crushing that they are doing in other areas.

I advised the Member yesterday, and I will confirm it again, that we are re-looking at this whole schedule, I mean, it is in the early stages of the whole program. We are looking again at how we can reschedule some of the other communities, if in fact it is possible. I don't guarantee anything here, but I do say that we can go over with Transportation what the cost would be to do a certain community in relation to where their equipment is. We have to keep in mind that although we manage to convince the government that chipsealing is an urgent need in the communities in relation to dust control, they have allocated only a certain amount of money for this. I am hoping that with the success that we are achieving even at this early stage with four communities, that we will be able to go back and show the government that there is a need for more funding and a need to step up the program. At this point in time, I am limited to a certain amount of dollars in this fiscal year. It is not my decision alone that decides what communities are being done, like I pointed out before. It's not my decision alone, it has to be in relation to where the other activities of Transportation are taking place. That's the only thing that makes it viable. Otherwise, we are talking millions and millions of dollars and we don't have that. I understand the concern of the Member and I will do what I can. I will work with him to see if it's possible somehow to do his communities. But, again, I can't base decisions on politics, otherwise his argument that I am doing this in favour of my communities will be valid and I am not doing it that way. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.