Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the issue of gravel in the community of Tuktoyaktuk and the source of gravel has been a long-standing one that the community has raised on a number of occasions and the department has been looking at for a long time now. In the 1990s, they were able to construct a kilometre road and there is still another 22 kilometres that have to be constructed. We did have several meetings with the community and members of the community over the last while to discuss this issue. We looked at different ways that we could try to fast track some of this with the federal government. We have, as a government, included it in our Corridors for Canada II, as the Member has mentioned. We've also included the whole portion of the road from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk in other document called Connecting Canada. We've also shared this information with other organizations, such as the Business Coalition, and have been talking about how and what our next steps are going to be. We are waiting to see who will be the Minister, and we are in the process of drafting a plan to approach the federal government to present this to them.

However, having said that, at our meetings with the community, we've talked about our other options of what we can do in the interim. The communities indicated to us that they would like to start an engineering assessment of this stretch of road from Tuktoyaktuk to source 177. The federal government sat in on a meeting. We both agreed, as the territorial government and as the federal government, to provide some dollars to the community. An amount of $50,000 was requested and we have provided our share of $25,000 and sent it over to the community.

The other thing that we are looking at as an option is the possibility of doing a P3 project. Our departments have been working together to do an assessment of what the needs are in the community of Tuktoyaktuk over the next 20 years. We have been able to identify that there is a need of 200,000 cubic metres of gravel in the community. That doesn't include other needs such as the actual gravel needs for construction of a road from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.