Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I disagree that we are going to forget about Highway No. 6. Highway No. 6, as I indicated, was put forward through the capital acquisition plan and was not accepted. The case we put forward for Highway No. 6 does include the safety factor, however, the low traffic volumes was a factor. We will again put Highway No. 6 forward for the next capital planning process. Until we can find and identify the resources to resurface Highway No. 6 and make some improvements, we can't do it.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I am not sure where the Minister is getting his information from with regard to increase in traffic volume on Highway No. 6 and incident rates that are occurring on that highway. I am looking at this acquisition plan, and this is a plan that goes until 2008-09, and it is not even included in 2005-06-07-08 or '09 on this capital acquisition plan. To me that just doesn't make any sense. I drive that highway all the time, as do many residents in Deninu Kue, and the highway extending from the junction to Hay River has really heavy volumes of traffic going back and forth day and night. So I am not sure how the Minister can say that it didn't meet any criteria for any improvement, and also considering the fact that there is a small community that is approximately 20 kilometres on that highway system that also constitutes an increased volume of traffic to and from the community of Deninu Kue. So I just don't know why it would be totally excluded from this whole infrastructure acquisition plan altogether. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chair, I want to reassure the Member that the capital acquisition plan is adjusted year by year. We will submit it again. The highway does not receive a high priority in terms of the capital criteria set forth by the corporate capital planning system. Although the Member indicates there is a lot of traffic, the traffic volumes are still low compared to the other highways. Unless we have approval through the corporate capital planning system, we have no other avenue of funding and upgrade to this road. It doesn't meet the criteria for the SIFF program or other programs of that nature. So we have to depend on the corporate capital planning system to access dollars to do it. I can realize the frustration the Member is feeling, and we will commit to resubmitting this highway for funding.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am glad that the Minister recognizes the frustration that I feel that the highway has just totally been disregarded in this budget. The traffic accident facts for 2002, which is published by the Minister's department on a yearly basis, clearly shows that the incidents of higher traffic collisions on that highway should be taken into very serious consideration when looking at improvements in our highway system. I want to make the Minister aware that when the traffic accident facts report comes out for 2003 and the numbers and volumes and levels of traffic indicators show that there has been a very large increase in the volume of traffic on that road since it has become the only link that the community has had to any other communities for services insofar as medical and dental, and what have you. Just a comment that I just want to make sure that due consideration is given for every highway, and in a context that is fair for everyone in the fact that when we look at the number of accidents all the way around, the accident rate on the highway is even higher than on some ice roads, which is very disturbing to me, Mr. Chair. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. That was more of a comment. Next I have Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a quick comment. I wanted to ask about the airports. The airport in Colville Lake...

Mr. Yakeleya, you are going to have to request or ask the committee if they would like to refer back to that page, depending on what page you want to look at, it is either CAP-19 or CAP-20. Thank you.

I apologize, Mr. Chair. I ask committee to go back to CAP-20.

Is it the wish of committee to go back to CAP-20?

Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you very much, colleagues. A quick question. One is the airport in Colville Lake, it is lacking a facility. The plane lands and there is no building or structure whatsoever, in terms of people having some comfort. I want to ask the department if there are any plans for Colville Lake to look at a small facility that would be situated in Colville Lake at the airport. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the Colville Lake airport has no air terminal building, as the Member indicated. We have a number of airports in the North that are in this situation. If it doesn't appear in the needs assessment, then we are probably not projecting to do anything in the near future with this facility. I don't have all of the details. So I would have to take a look at where the Colville Lake airport building would be in terms of a priority and get back to the Member.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Minister. Would the department look at the community of Colville Lake because of the amount of activity that has been going on in Colville Lake in the last few years, would look at cost sharing? Is it a possibility to put a building at the airport? Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe the Colville Lake airport is one of the airports that would be affected by the pipeline project, and it is already

being monitored in terms of potential impacts and increases in traffic. It would be part of the report that we are projecting to have completed by the end of the summer.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Minister. I was flying down here from Tulita, and when I flew just past Wha Ti and coming into Yellowknife, looking at the land in passing Wha Ti and passed the community of Rae-Edzo, looking at the airports. On CAP-20 here, they have a road that passes through Rae-Edzo, Fort Rae, and they also have an airport. I don't see anything in terms of the work done in the Dogrib region. I believe there's one in Wekweti that is being looked at. Is there anything in terms of work under the Rae-Edzo airport? They're using the road a lot in that area, so I guess it's a past decision of the government...(inaudible)...