Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I was wondering if different departments have the right to just administer the policy as they see fit. One part of the policy, in particular, Mr. Speaker, concerns the local adjustment that they have within the Business Incentive Policy. Are departments free to apply the BIP or the local adjustment on a government contract as they see fit, or are all departments treated the same when it comes to government contracts? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Delorey. The honourable Minister of RWED, Mr. Antoine.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Delorey.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, is the Minister aware of any departments that do not use the local adjustment on certain government contracts, that remove the local aspect from government contracts? Do departments have the right to do that without coming back to the Minister? Is the Minister aware of any departments that do that? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Delorey. The honourable Minister of RWED, Mr. Antoine.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Your final supplementary, Mr. Delorey.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if a company is bidding on a government contract and comes into some problems, saying that all of the sudden the local is not being applied to this contract and it is something that is coming out of the blue, how does a company voice a complaint that they've lost a contract because all of a sudden the department is saying we don't apply the local contract to this tender? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Delorey, The honourable Minister of RWED, Mr. Antoine.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Item 7, oral questions. The honourable Member for North Slave, Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. The honourable Minister of Transportation, Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the GNWT Department of Transportation does not have any authority on the road going from Yellowknife area north. There is no jurisdiction. The same would apply to any new road going north from any other location. That is federal jurisdiction. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you. The honourable Minister of Transportation, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, the Department of Transportation and I, as Minister, have communicated with the federal Minister of DIAND and his department, who are responsible. We wanted him to transfer the authority for the winter road from Tibbett Lake north up into the mining area to the GNWT. Recently, the Minister of DIAND decided to turn the authority for that road over to a private consortium made up of the mining companies in that area. We have no jurisdiction and he has decided not to give us any jurisdiction for the time being. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.

The honourable Minister of Transportation, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, a number of years ago in our non-renewable resource development strategy, we made reference to the need to have an all-weather road somewhere that would connect our highways, our Highway No. 1, Highway No. 3 and so on, into the Slave Geological Province. That was essentially the last time that we have put that proposal forward to the federal government. At the same time, we talked about the road along the Mackenzie Valley and a number of other ones. Mr. Speaker, we still believe strongly that there should be an all-weather road connection into that area or at least some form of surface transportation, a railroad, for example, could be an alternative if it made more sense. We are interested in doing it, we were interested in going on the route north from Tibbett Lake. As I have told the Member on a number of occasions, if the leaders in the Dogrib area agreed, we would even work with them to put together a proposal to have a road go through that route if there was agreement. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Final supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.