Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the process that has been used up until now was used to identify volumes. I am assuming Mr. Delorey is referring to not only the highway system, but to the air transportation system we have in place. So safety is an issue, traffic volume is an issue and also the cost. As I mentioned before, the issue of resource impact was a factor in the SIFF, and also significant reconstruction. That was the evaluation that the six projects were identified under the Corridors for Canada. That was brought forward. We feel that the Government of the Northwest Territories or the Department of Transportation was really in the driver's seat in terms of making the submission. Because of the approach, there was an exception made for the NWT that the dollars could be used on impacted areas and not restricted to the national highway system as other provinces and other jurisdictions are required to. So there was an evaluation on those six projects we brought forward.
As I indicated earlier, one project was dropped off the list because it was new road and it required 100 percent federal investment. That was the Tuk to Inuvik road. The other project that was taken off the list was the Mackenzie River bridge, because there was a private/public partnership arrangement for that project. The one project that was brought forward was the Highway No. 7 reconstruction around Fort Liard. So that's how we ended up with the projects on the SIFF list for funding.
We also accessed the A-CAP funding. Again it's based on the traffic volumes. Many of our airports across the North are used to maximum. Norman Wells, Inuvik, Yellowknife and Hay River all part of those airports that we're looking at doing work in; some for security reasons, some for safety reasons. How we will go from here as a starting point to make our proposals to the federal government; first of all, we're trying to identify where there are dollars that we can access. There was a speech from the Throne that we are trying to interpret what it will mean in terms of new monies for infrastructure for Transportation. We are also trying to see if we can make a second submission to the federal government in terms of under the SIFF program and add more projects to the list. Of course, we have to also be very considerate of the fact of our fiscal situation, and we're continually being reminded by our Finance Minister.
So there is a lot of need across the Territories for infrastructure development, for reconstruction, for replacing some of our equipment, for upgrading our roads. As soon as we have more detail as to what is available and how we would like to proceed, we would certainly be glad to share that with the committee. Thank you.