Mr. Chair, I’m very encouraged by the Minister’s comments in terms of the possibility of this being a discussion at a Cabinet level and coming back to the community for a look at this issue here. I certainly appreciate the Minister’s support, I guess, from all around to increases. This is very important for our communities, to increase the funding for this type of project. So I want to say to the Minister that he’s done a good job in this area here. He has certainly listened to the people in this area here.
Mr. Chair, I want to speak to the Minister about the Mackenzie Valley Highway and the PDR report. There is a lot of discussion; people like Ms. Cece McCauley saying just finish all the talking, the reports, and just get the highway built. I mean, you know, it’s a very simple statement; however, we seem to put a lot of things in place and just to go out there and start doing the pick and shovel and start putting the road together. So now the people in Norman Wells and Tulita are looking at the possibility of something sort of like a training plan like Hire North or Aurora College or something that would get the road built. For example, they talked about is there something that they could look at between Tulita and Norman Wells in terms of starting some section about putting our steel to work. There’s equipment that needs to be used. I know there’s lot of discussion on how do we start the Mackenzie Valley Highway. I certainly know that the Gwich’in have actively pursued this area and they are working vigorously to see what they can do to maybe even bring the highway down from the north into the Sahtu. I just wanted to ask the Minister in terms of this type of discussion starting the project. We know for sure that Tuktoyaktuk is unofficially starting the work on their road. They don’t quite say it, but we know that there’s work being done in Tuk that is the beginning of the Mackenzie Valley Highway. So I want to ask the Minister if he can give me any comments to those. Thank you.