Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the issue of the Tuk-Inuvik highway has been on our radar screen for some time. We have been looking at ways we can find the funding to put this project on the table. It was in our earlier submission as part of Corridors for Canada. However, the funding was not adequately funded as part of this initiative. We have not brought this issue forward to the federal government for some time. I should point out that the responsibilities for any new roads in the NWT are still under the responsibility of the federal government. We have not brought this issue forward to the federal government. We have had some discussions with the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation. We have provided the information to them and we plan to look at this initiative again as part of our review this coming year. We plan to update our Highway Strategy.
We also plan to compile information required to look at putting together our need through the next while in terms of new roads, new projects and make another submission. Our focus will be a little different this time. Last time, our Corridors for Canada submission was focused in the areas of resource development and the potential gas pipeline. This time we still have the issue of resource development, but we also want to look at focussing on connecting our communities this time around and trying to do some reconstruction to the areas that have not seen investment in the last go-around for federal funding. Thanks.