Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess I take some comfort in the fact that the Premier is talking to the federal Finance Minister. I know the Premier mentioned the fact that I’m a card-carrying Conservative, which is true. Although it’s unusual to bring up party preferences here in this House, the last time I heard that was from our current Finance Minister who had his ABC -- Anybody But Conservative -- campaign going in the run-up to the last federal election. I wonder how that is helping us with our negotiations with the federal government and any other concerns financially that we bring to the federal government. I just wanted to put that out there.

I want to get back to some of these deficiencies that the Minister of Transportation has brought to our attention today. I disagree with him. I think he referred to the scour rock issue as minor. I’m not sure how much money was spent on dumping that scour rock into the Mackenzie River, but to surround four piers in that river was a tremendous amount of rock. To my knowledge that scour rock was prepaid. I know that the Minister had mentioned that it hadn’t been paid for yet, but to my knowledge it was prepaid. We’ve paid for that rock that’s at the bottom of the Mackenzie River. Most of it is probably half way to Norman Wells by now and we had better ensure that those piers are protected. I want to ask the Minister what assurances we have that that rock is going to be replaced around those piers so they are fully protected.