Mr. Chairman, I also will be supporting this motion. I think this motion here speaks to sort of clearing the dust on these issues here. You have a program. You have the communities and municipal funding. You have expertise within the Department of Transportation and also they have studies done by the Municipal and Community Affairs office here. You think what we are asking here is through this motion here I am looking at it in terms of implementing a chipsealing program for the communities where there is expertise from the Department of Transportation which has the expertise, has the resources, and has the knowledge. With MACA, you have the studies. They have the funding in helping the communities implement a chipsealing program, small communities, so they can utilize their resources to develop a good program.

For so long, Mr. Chairman, in our communities, especially with the elders that Mr. Krutko talked about, the amount of dust that collects on their windowsills, in their houses, on their furniture, it is unbelievable where we don’t do a proper job in terms of suppressing the dust in our communities. Twenty years ago, Mr. Chairman, I talked about this, that there weren’t very many vehicles in our communities. Today there are over 60 vehicles in Tulita itself and then with the amount of driving that happens in that small little community the road sure takes a pounding. When that happens, the amount of dust in the people’s face, the amount of dust that is collected in the houses, even in our health centre. It is close by the road there. It is outrageous, in that a very good program should be able to help our communities.

I fully support this motion here. I think about my Aunt Julie who is asthmatic and that she has to keep her windows closed during the summer months because of the amount of dust that is in her house and she is complaining. She is an elderly lady who complains to me every time we go in Tulita in terms of the dust that is happening in and around her place in the summertime. She has to almost change her air filters once a week. She has to get it here at Wal-Mart. It costs a lot of money in the summer months. I think more of her and the older people and the younger kids that have to breathe in the dust when there is no dust suppression or any dust control in our communities. I look forward to something from this department, from the other departments to see how they can work with our communities and how do we

implement a chipsealing program for all of the communities that Mr. Krutko has alluded to in terms of this committee motion. I look forward to some results from this motion. Thank you.