Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate the willingness of the Minister. Can we get the Minister to at least commit today...Let's first be very clear. We know this wouldn't be done all at once. That's a fair observation. We know nobody is going to give us all the money all at once to do whatever we want. I recognize that and the Minister recognizes that. That's just the reality. What we could commit to is the fact that we want to do these things. I think we need the commitment here today that we will want to do these things. When we say it's a priority, it's not just one in 1,000 priorities. We can only have so many priority number ones and that's my concern. Everything is a priority; but I think this is truly a great opportunity and seize it in the legacy project, as coined by the Minister.
We need new corridors for Canada. This will open up a lot of known and proven areas of potential mineral and oil and gas development opportunities. So this will certainly be a legacy, just not for the short term, but to connect our communities as well. I don't have to go on at length about how our citizens have to drive all the way around through the Yukon and down to B.C., just to get back to the NWT. This will reaffirm our little sovereignty in the Northwest Territories. So this is just one little element of government working for the people. I just want to have the assurance that the Minister will truly make this a priority of this government and engage Regular Members on the importance of this.
The last point which I want to emphasize is by no means would I assume the whole Tuk-Inuvik highway would be done all in one year or in one push. That may be hopeful and may be what we ultimately want, but let's recognize the first surge from that community area is getting to that gravel source and working towards it. Thank you, Madam Chair. If I could get those types of acknowledgements from the Minister of those true priorities, I would appreciate it. Thank you.