Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Member is correct. We have a four year, $1 million per year project to reconstruct and put additional chipseal on Highway No. 6. That project started this year. We’ve been doing some engineering work and have been trying to arrange a meeting with the community. We hope to arrange that shortly, in the next month or so, to get the communities’ input on their priorities.

In our own investigations that we done so far, we think that the priority is, as the Member suggested, the last 25 or 30 kilometres that go into the community. I think we’re aligned there. After the community meeting there will be some work out to tender. It’s not on the road work this year, but it would be producing granular materials so that we can get ready for some of the funding that’s coming next year and begin some of the reconstruction and drainage work that’s required prior to putting the chipseal on.

The second question is in terms of the chipseal overlay. There is a budgeted amount there. It is to rehabilitate the existing chipsealed surfaces on our highway system. It’s the amount of money that we need to ensure that they are — at the end of their life cycle — being rehabilitated and replaced as required. We do have an estimate of where we think the priorities for work are, but it’s always finalized in the spring of the year. After the winter and getting through the drainage time when the subgrade is at its weakest, we go and inspect all of our chipsealed surfaces and decide what the priorities are for replacement and then go and get the work done. The Member’s portion of Highway No. 6 that’s chipsealed would be evaluated along with all the other sections at that time. I believe it was about two years ago that we had gone and

actually put a new surface on a section there, so I’m not sure that it would be up for renewal right away.