Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, will stand up to support this motion as amended. When the Premier made his sessional statement it became clear that he announced that the project will move ahead. I did get some calls from back home on why this government should invest $130 million in this Deh Cho Bridge.

Sometimes, Mr. Speaker, I think that this government at times would think that Ottawa is not listening to us when we do talk about issues that affect us. What's more important I think in my riding back in the Sahtu and Beaufort-Delta, we really feel left out in terms of projects that we think are important. To go ahead and decide, you know, let's go ahead with the Deh Cho Bridge, it really causes disappointment back home in terms of infrastructure that's required.

In regard to the amount of time down here that people have to be without, or what you call a certain link from south to north, you're only looking at four weeks in a year. Take a look at back home. Once the ice road goes in in mid-May, we have to rely on the airlines right until mid-December when the ice road is open again. When you take a look at the time span, it's costly for us.

So I like the motion that's put forward because, like Mr. Ramsay said, we're not trying to stop this bridge, but all we want is more information with regard to the total costing of the bridge and I really think it's important that the Members on that side really take consideration of this motion. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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