Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Our government continues to spend money on the Mackenzie Valley road and, as I indicated earlier, we've got $41 million worth of investments over six years, of which there's two left. I know the Member remains frustrated over our level of investment in Highway No. 4, the Ingraham Trail, and in six years we invested, or do plan to invest a total of $12 million for that road. Once again, it's a safety consideration and maintenance of our infrastructure. The more trucks that are on the highway, there's more deterioration that happens and that's why the level of investment into the Ingraham Trail, to basically keep it up, the upkeep on it. Once again, the government recognizes the value of the resources that are being developed in the Slave Geological Province and we have to assist in that.
As well, we also recognize the amount of resources that the Member's own riding has there, Mr. Chair, in the Sahtu, and our need to go further and get the resources from our High Arctic and around Tuktoyaktuk, as well. To that end, the federal government has agreed with that business case, and the long-term strategy is to help us develop the bridges on the Mackenzie Valley winter road. That's why we're building bridges; it is part of our long-term strategy to eventually have an all-season or an all-weather road north, Mr. Chair. No, they're not being forgotten. We continue to strive towards that strategy. Well, this year, in particular, it is a huge blow to our government to look at the reality of not building a Bear River Bridge. We had the money at that time but, unfortunately, it was only good for 2004 dollars, so we had to reallocate the money that we had slated for the Bear
River Bridge and, in fact, we managed to get five more bridges in. I believe it was, and the deputy minister can correct me, I think it's a total of 34 out of 37 bridges will be completed for that section all the way up to Good Hope. We continue to strive and work towards our own goals of utilizing what resources we have for one of our priorities and that's the Mackenzie Valley highway. Thank you.