Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I can assure the Member that myself and this government, that we are doing nothing; that we are not saying no to the Inuvik-Tuk road. Some of the new initiatives that have been announced in the federal budget, the details are still being worked out and we'd like to see what they are so we can roll out the program. We've committed to the House and to committee that we'd like to work with you in identifying the priorities of where to allocate that money there, Mr. Speaker. Certainly, we have maintained, and will always maintain, that responsibility for new roads rests with the federal government. Mahsi cho.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Supplementary, Mr. Pokiak.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I'd just like to say that the Premier and I are very supportive of the initiative that you continue to raise in this House. It is a good initiative of the honourable Member and something that we always support are ground base initiatives. That project specifically will be addressed in the fullness of time, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Supplementary, Mr. Pokiak.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to ask the Minister, has he had discussion with his Cabinet already to make sure that some of that $25 million that's identified right now from the federal government will be allocated towards source 177 from Tuk? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. That particular project, source 177, is amongst the many priorities that are laying before us as Cabinet to decide on. Once again, we'll work with committee in establishing the priorities as laid out by the guidelines of how we're going to spend the money for the federal programming that has been announced. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Final supplementary, Mr. Pokiak.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the Minister providing information but again, I think, this is a gravel source that's really required by the community and I think it's really important that if government wants to help people build pads and build roads, access roads and stuff like that, I think for the community of Tuktoyaktuk, this is one issue that's really important to their hearts and that it's really important that they find the funds for the allocation from Tuk to Inuvik, the 22 kilometres. Thank you, Mr, Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Our government and this department continue discussions with Inuvik-Tuk road committee and we are considering it seriously. In fact, we had provided the Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk with $25,000 in the past and the federal government has committed some funding towards the engineering and survey work required for the road to source 177. So we've continued to move forward on this agenda item that is very important to the Member. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Oral questions. The honourable Member for Kam Lake, Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to continue with a line of questioning for the Minister of Transportation. Again it's on the Deh Cho Bridge project and I'd like to certainly sign up to negotiate with this government. I mean, here the Minister talks about negotiations going on and these guys can't even put a top level on what they're willing to spend; what the tolls are going to be. It's an open-ended negotiation. I think that's what I haven't heard from the government is what is the ceiling? Where are we going to go to? What are we prepared to spend? What are we willing to put the residents here at risk of paying in terms of consumer goods? What's going to be the increase to consumer goods here in the North Slave region? So I'd like to, again, ask the Minister of Transportation, and I understand negotiations are going on, what is the ceiling? Is it an open-ended negotiation and we're going to build a bridge at any cost? Is that what's going to happen, Mr. Speaker? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. The honourable Minister responsible for Transportation, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As per the Deh Cho Bridge Act, we've committed to $6 per ton for the trucks per load plus inflationary costs over the years that come. As well, Mr. Speaker, we have committed a lot of the costs that it actually costs us to operate our ferries and ice bridges right now. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Supplementary, Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm still a little bit confused on this aspect of it, too. Yesterday in the sessional statement by the Premier, the Premier talked of a couple of things: the Deh Cho Bridge project on one hand and then on the other hand we talk of the Taltson expansion, which would take, in his sessional statement, an estimated 2,000 truckloads of fuel from going across that bridge. In my estimation, and the Minister said it earlier today, it's $250 a truckload; that equates to over $1 million in lost revenue, lost whole revenue on that bridge. Has the government accounted for that lost revenue should the Taltson expansion go ahead? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Some of the discussion that we have been talking to the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation with is, of course, still in our concession agreement, but some of the maximum costs that we are looking at is up to around $4 million a year annually to the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Supplementary, Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to get that figure of $4 million, and I guess it's in Hansard now, so I'm not sure if it's written in stone anywhere but that would be a good place to start, and I don't think it should go over that, Mr. Speaker. I'd also like to ask a question to the Minister about risk. Should the toll revenue decrease $1 million a year five years from now, who's going to absorb that $1 million in risk, Mr. Speaker? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. The time for question period has expired; however, I'll allow this line of questioning to continue. Mr. Menicoche.