One of the things that was said early on in the life of this government is we need to be clear and we need to be strategic and go and work on specific initiatives. Previous governments have been known to go down there with a wish list that was a mile wide and a foot long type thing. We needed to narrow it down and focus on specific areas. We shared that with Members. It was around the Mackenzie Valley Highway and the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline and expansion of our hydro. Those are the main issues that we’ve been focusing on and putting our energy into.

If we’re aware, for example, that the federal government is going to expand on its penitentiary system, we would be aligning ourselves to make sure we’ve got the foot in the door to tell them about the opportunities we can avail of them to give them indication and our numbers and opportunities there. That was in fact done a number of governments ago, and I know this because I’ve been around for quite a number of years when the government was talking about expanding its penitentiary system. We can’t go down there with a list of items and constantly add to those lists because we need to build a business case. If we know there’s interest there, we’ll go after it. We’ll continue on that pursuit.

The main files that the Members are aware of are, again, around the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline issue, the Mackenzie Valley Highway and the Taltson system. We’ve got an ask there, we continue to work that. In fact, one of those things have just come to fruition where we’ve cost-shared the dollars on PDR of the Mackenzie Valley Highway. That’s the farthest any government in the history of the Northwest Territories has gone on the Mackenzie Valley Highway. Let’s start recognizing some of the work that we have done.