Thank you, Mr. Chair. Today hearing a lot of my colleagues in regard to this project, you know, it being the Bridge Act in the 14th Assembly coming into the time of being signed off in the 15th Assembly and now us having to deal with

this issue, I want to really make it clear for the smaller communities, like my colleague Mr.

Beaulieu was mentioning, that we have to let the communities know that this project is not going to affect us in the long term and all the projects that we do have on the books will stay as is on a go forward basis. I really think that anybody that’s going to be impacted the most out of this project will be the communities, so our hands are tied already. So you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.

For myself, I will be supporting this motion on a go forward basis, but the government has to come out with a new rollout plan to tell us and tell the people of the Northwest Territories, and not only that, but with a game plan from their department in a big public blurp or a splash in the news in regard to this is our go forward, and hold them accountable to that. One hundred eighty-one million dollars is going to affect us. Speaking to the Premier, he said I really want to make this clear that it’s not going to be affecting the go forward for other projects in the communities. You know, I have projects I worry about for Ulukhaktok and Tuk and Sachs, Paulatuk, but I think on a go forward basis I was reassured that it’s not going to affect us, it would be totally separate and I really want to let the communities know and not scare them.

Like you said yourself, Mr. Chair, we have the simplest wording possible on the rollout plan for the people. It’s been almost two and a half years sitting here and this bridge has been and for some other of my colleagues it’s been a big issue and rightfully so. It’s a really important aspect of this government and our megaproject is this bridge. It will bring the cost of living down in Yellowknife and bring cheaper fuel, I guess, but at the end of the day all the taxpayers of the Northwest Territories are going to have to pay for this bridge.

So the only thing, like I said, the new rollout plan they have to come up with, letting the people know in the communities not to worry about the projects that are on the books. I look forward to listening to more of my colleagues on the go forward with this bill.