Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's always a challenge to deal with the damage that's been done over the winter months because of frost heaving, because of the level of traffic that's on our roads as a result of resource development. There is also the issue of some areas flooding and those type of things, and it takes

a while to catch up. All our crews are out there. All our own-force crews are out there. Some crews are working overtime if there's areas that need extra attention, and all our contract crews are out there. But we have to ask the general public to bear with us. It's going to take a while. It usually takes several weeks to a month to get back on a regular maintenance schedule and do all the patching. This year we tried to get our crews out early to be able to accommodate the level of repairs that needed to be done, but it's going to take a while. We also need the weather to cooperate with us because if we get a rain storm, then that really escalates the damage that gets done on the roads, especially our gravel roads such as highways No. 1 and No. 7 in the Member's riding. Thank you.