Absolutely. All of our roads have got to be properly reconstructed and rebased. I know that of the last round of CSIF funding, which ends this year or next, a lot of those resources are dedicated to Highway No. 7 — for the most part, I believe, Highway No. 1 from the Providence junction toward Fort Simpson. I think it’s 30 or 40 kilometres, down where the culverts were replaced, as well as Highway No. 7 from the B.C. border toward Liard. Those are particular sections I would like to see some planning on, some movement toward chipsealing those sections. If there are any identified areas, those would be the ones.
The Minister didn’t really say which capital plan the goal is to put it on; it certainly is my goal and the goal of Nahendeh residents to see it worked toward. Particularly when the pipeline talks were imminent, there was an argument about whether you chipseal the road and then have the big trucks roll over them and destroy them, or do you leave it
a gravel road and then pave it after the trucks have all passed through? I don’t know. I haven’t seen any facts or figures, but I’m sure the department has. I think that many, many other jurisdictions chipseal or pave first, and that affects the safety of everybody involved, with the enormous projectiles and everything from many, many vehicles.
Just on that alone I’d like, once again, to ask a question. Maybe the Minister would show me — it doesn’t have to be tonight, but soon — the capital needs assessment and just where Highways No. 1 and No. 7 would fit with the new Building Canada Fund. I’m sure that’s intended with the CSIF funding that’s expired.