Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the mines doing business north of Yellowknife continue to have a very legitimate concern about the winter road season and the ability to get all the supplies they need up to their mines impacted by an ever-unpredictable winter road season. The issue is now, once again, in the paper. There's talk of the Bathurst Port and the road down, about $300 million worth; another option out of Gordon Lake. I'd also like to raise, once again, the issue, if we're looking at options for opening up the North Slave, that there should be a road that goes up through the Tlicho that will help hook into the communities that are there and across up to the mines. This would be an opportunity to do at least double or triple duty. It could truly be a P3 project where you have the Tlicho Government, the territorial government and industry working together to put in an all-weather road that would suit and meet all the needs of all the people in that region and allow us to open up a part of the territory where there's only going to be increased activity. Because of climate change and global warming, we know that the winter road season is only going to get shorter and more unpredictable, and more difficult for miners, the mines and other businesses to plan to get the ever-increasing amount of logistics that they have to get up that road through in such a short window of time.
So, Mr. Speaker, I'm going to be asking the Minister of Transportation later to see that they include this option in any business planning process and work that's underway for the '08-09 budget so that the incoming 16th Assembly will have that option to look at as well as others. Thank you.
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