Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Premier, the Minister responsible for the Deh Cho Bridge Act and corporation, and the proposed construction of the Mackenzie River bridge. Mr. Speaker, as I mentioned in my Member's statement earlier, most residents here in the North Slave region in the city of Yellowknife would welcome a bridge. But from where I stand, I don't believe the project has received any level of scrutiny by Members of this House, by the public; and by the sounds of the Premier's sessional statement, we're marching headlong into agreements without any federal assistance. Mr. Speaker, I'm a tad bit confused, I must say, because over the past three years the government has insisted that the project wouldn't go ahead unless there was federal assistance, and now in the sessional statement today the Premier is saying that the project is going to go ahead. So I'd like to ask the Premier, if he could, to let us know if indeed the
project, the Mackenzie River bridge, will be built without any federal assistance. Mahsi.