Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, there is a period of time between winter and summer, it's called spring...
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...when we have difficulty to provide any type of meaningful maintenance on our roads, be it chipseal or gravel. There is a period of time that we need to allow our roads to thaw. We have recognized the increased level of traffic on all our roads in the NWT. We have concerns being raised by people across the Northwest Territories on our gravel roads and on our roads that are chipsealed; however, we need to be able to do our repairs when the roads are thawed. We have looked into the situation where concerns have come from; the Deh Cho communities on Highway No. 7. We have done an inspection just last week and we have instructed our contract crews to start doing repairs. We should also point out that we are continuing to improve Highway No. 7. We have committed to spend over $4 million on that section of road to try to deal with the level of traffic and to increase the upkeep of the road and do some major reconstruction on some of the bridges and some sections of that road to improve it. Thank you, Madam Speaker.