Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to say to the Minister and the department that, certainly, there’s always huge interest in terms of infrastructure in our smaller communities, especially the ones that seem to need it more in terms of bringing down the cost of living or just have accessibility to other things similar to where communities have all-season roads. I’m just talking about the access into the Sahtu and into other communities that have roads into their communities. I just wanted to say to the Minister that we certainly appreciate the infrastructure dollars coming into our region and how it gets spread across in terms of satisfying all the other regions also for their infrastructure needs. I know it’s a challenge and I certainly hope that through the Minister and his department, to put together some creative arguments and solutions towards the federal government in terms of how do we get more dollars into building up our infrastructure in our communities. I know it’s desperately long thought after in terms of, say, for example, the Bear River bridge in my region. It’s something that we could certainly use. Also, the industries such as oil and gas companies coming, that they can use an extra month of drilling. That means extra dollars of money into the Northwest Territories. It does help us ease with the safety issue and now the discussion on climate change. So those kinds of things are important there.

So I guess what I wanted to say to the Minister is that I know there is a lot of work being done, a lot of

good work is going to get done in the North here, and we certainly appreciate the money being spent in our region in terms of building up our infrastructure. We’re finally starting to see some of our equipment being worked more than three or four months of the year. It’s stretched out to six or seven months, which is a good sign for us. So I just wanted to say that to the Minister in terms of his ability and his team members to go to Ottawa and continue to get more funding and look at other funding avenues to look at some creative ways as to how do we get infrastructure into our regions. That would probably make a lot of people happy on this issue here. I’ll leave it at that, Mr. Chair. Just more comments to the Minister and his staff.