Mr. Chairman, I’d like to thank the Member for highlighting this very important piece of infrastructure. The City of Yellowknife and this department have worked on it for a number of years in terms of seeing how we could look at safety issues, look at serving both the department and the city in terms of this important infrastructure. It’s been in our long-term plans.
However, because of the funding that became available through the Building Canada funding arrangement, we accelerated, on the wishes of the City of Yellowknife, to see if there’s a way that we could expedite this project in terms of building a bypass road. The funds have not been concluded in terms of…. The Building Canada funding arrangement is still in the hands of the Hon. Michael McLeod, the lead Minister of BCF, in terms of the arrangements. We negotiated with the City of Yellowknife in terms of the funding requirements.
We ourselves have done due diligence in terms of this agreement, and I’d ask my Deputy Minister to speak specifically to the question Ms. Bisaro is asking about in terms of the funding by the government in the city in terms of the 50-50. We
believe this is a 50-50 partnership. Mr. Neudorf could speak to the funding arrangements in terms of how we see this deal with the City of Yellowknife.