Mr. Speaker, we have dedicated a significant amount of resources over the last few years. In fact, we’ve gone to a seven-
day work week from a five-day work week so that we could have more maintenance cycles performed on our highways. We have also been really doing a lot of work in terms of upgrading our roads. Our roads are still, a lot of them are at the age where they have to be reconstructed; they’re at the midlife portion of where they need to be redone. There are also roads in our system that are not quite up to the standard that’s accepted across Canada, so we’re still working towards widening our roads and working on the shoulders and guardrails and things of that nature. Our roads are adequate. We feel they’re safe. The costs to operate our roads in the maintenance cycles are significantly higher than the south. On the Dempster, for example, it would cost us around $17,000 per kilometre to maintain a road whereas in Alberta it’s probably anywhere from $1,000 to $1,500.