Mr. Chairman, I am not sure why the Member would be questioning if we had 2,200 kilometres of road. It certainly can’t go missing. I would like to confirm that is the number that we have in the NWT and roughly 800 of those kilometres are chipsealed. It is our goal and our intention to provide a chipseal or some kind of stable topping on our roads. We recognize that it allows for a better preservation of our highways, so that is the intention.

As for how long it takes, it is a long-term goal and as we move forward, as we progress with the reconstruction, we intend to follow with either a chipseal or EK-35 or Easy Street or whatever the best application for that area would be. Of course, in the northern part of the Territories there is still a lot of testing that we want to have done before we start doing that. It is a very costly undertaking, but that is the intention as we move forward in upgrading all our roads. I should also point out that most of our roads are at a point in their life cycle that they need to be replaced or upgraded and that is part of what we are doing also. Thank you.