Well, I think that’s something that should be looked at regardless of whether it’s asphalt or not. As long as it’s not mud, we’re okay.

I think that in a lot of communities in this day and age, a lot of the first impressions people get when they go into a lot of our communities are of the amount of dust or mud they have to walk through. That’s the impression they leave those communities with. I think this is an opportunity to bring our communities into the 20th century. I think that when

we go into other parts of the world — Africa and Latin America — most of those other countries are a lot poorer than we are in the Northwest Territories, yet they have pretty well groomed road systems. That’s something we have to seriously look at.

I’d just like to leave that with the Minister. Hopefully, we get just as good a response from the Department of Transportation when we get to them, because we don’t seem to be getting much lately.