Thank you, Mr. Chair. I've driven that highway in the last few years and I'm not sure where that 2,000 tons went. I'm sure it flew off the highway with the rest of the dust, because it's just not working. It's not working. I'll leave it at that on that particular subject. I will, and that's another issue that I should pursue with Transportation before this session is over, because it's something that's very important to the people up there.
The other question that I have is on the Mackenzie Valley highway again and I can't put it any better than my colleague from the Sahtu when he said, gee whiz.
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I can't put it any better than that. I'd like to ask the Minister, we hear what Ottawa says all the time and they say we're going to connect Canada coast to coast to coast and Arctic sovereignty and all they seem to be doing is talking, talking, talking. I'd like to ask the Minister, what is Ottawa's real position on the construction of the Mackenzie Valley highway? They have the means and the ability to do it and I'm starting to realize that maybe they just don't want to do it, because it stopped construction in 1977 because development slowed down. However, development since then has doubled, maybe tripled, and will continue to go up. I'd hate to think that they stopped it because of development and forgot about the people, because there are people living along the route to the highway. So my question to the Minister would be, and I just said it already, is what is Ottawa's real position on our Mackenzie Valley highway? We hear what they say, and they say a lot, but we haven't seen them do anything yet. So I'd like to ask the Minister that. Thank you.