The section of road between Betchoko and Yellowknife is, of course, going over

an area that has much discontinuous permafrost. We are very challenged to maintain the safe driving surface that’s on that road because of the level of non-melting we’re seeing in the road.

When we come to when we did contract construction of that road over a period of ten years, we asked ourselves what type of warranty would be reasonable for a contractor to provide. In this case, we determined it was most cost effective to just ensure a regular warranty. A contractor always warranties against any material defects and workmanship in the quality of the work. We did not ask them to warranty against permafrost and what might melt further on underneath the road.

We are maintaining that road, doing a good job, as the Minister said, with our own-forces. I also have a chipseal overlay budget that allows us to address some of those things in a more significant way when that’s required.

Then in our Building Canada Fund, which will come up here as well, we’re also proposing to take another step back and see if we can be a little bit more aggressive even on some of the reconstruction of those most severe problem areas to ensure we’re minimizing the amount of O&M and the amount of repairs we have to do on that road.