Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just have brief comments in regards to this particular budget. I would like to, as well, go on record indicating that I fully support the extension of the Mackenzie Valley highway up to Inuvik and on to Tuk, preferably as part of the pipeline project that hopefully the Conservative federal government will kick into as a way to have a legacy project that will open up the North.
I also would like to go on record, once again, to restate my interest and support for the idea of a road through the Tlicho that will connect all of the communities as well as forge on ahead up to the mines as a long-range, good way to open up this part of the country and to take an enormous amount of traffic out of through Yellowknife and up through the current route. Of course, I, like the government, wait eagerly for the potential new funding or possible new funding extensions for further infrastructure development and, of course, I have particularly in mind the building to, once and for all, finally finish the
chipsealing of Highway No. 5 and 6, 5 being in the Fort Smith, 6 being in the Fort Resolution.