Mr. Chairman, we certainly have been trying to deal with the large amount of requirements for bridges in the Northwest Territories. We have actively worked on 37 new bridges that we’ll have in place over the last while. We have now a total of 77 bridges in the highway system. There are still five major bridges that need to be addressed at some point. It is a concern. The Liard River Bridge, the Ndulee crossing, the Bear River Bridge, the Peel River Bridge, as the Member has indicated, and also the Mackenzie crossing at Tsiigehtchic are all requirements that probably should have been addressed at the time of the construction of the road. We are hoping that some of these bridges will be addressed if there is ever a Mackenzie Highway put in place.

At the same time, we are looking at options, as the Member has indicated. A number of times in this House, there is a cost of not having a bridge. There is a cost in the communities and we are looking, as part of our strategies, to lower the cost of living in communities. How do we address that without having the actual dollars to construct a very expensive piece of infrastructure in the communities that the Member represents? We have been able to use new technology, new methods of building ice roads. That has allowed us to get across the river or across the ice bridge crossing quicker to probably opening it up a couple of weeks earlier, but overall there is still a need that needs to be addressed in the form of building for the long term a permanent piece of infrastructure and we will continue to work to that and continue looking at options. At this point we don’t have the resources to build a piece of infrastructure. The Member has done a lot of work with a number of companies and with the aboriginal government in his area to review the situation and we will be glad to continue working with him to see if there is a way forward on this. Thank you.