Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to ask my questions to the Premier and it is about the Deh Cho Bridge. Mr. Speaker, in the statement that the Premier made, it said: “First, I want to assure Members and the public that assuming responsibility for the Deh Cho Bridge Project will not change the GNWT’s fiscal situation or the GNWT’s ability to pay for programs and services.”

Mr. Speaker, that is a very categorical statement and doesn’t really take into account anything unforeseen. As my colleague Mr. Ramsay had pointed out, there have been some unexpected occurrences with the Deh Cho Bridge Project. I am thinking specifically about the cost. We had a fixed price, fixed contract, but it seems that that had to be adjusted somewhat. Mr. Speaker, we have a household income here if we make this an analogy. It is the $1.3 billion that we have to work with each year. We have some long-term debt -- Housing Corporation, Power Corporation and now potentially the Deh Cho Bridge -- but we have a limit. We have a limit. It is like having a credit card. There is a limit. We can’t go over that limit. It is $500 million.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the Premier, interest rates are projected to be going up. We have $100 million from the Immigrant Investment Fund sitting in a bank account or in some investment somewhere. It is not doing us much good financially. Is there any possibility that the lenders could be… If their fortunes and their interest could be better putting their loan someplace else, is there any chance that we could take the $165 million bridge debt for the Deh Cho Bridge

and pay that down more quickly through some other means, maybe partially by using some of the Opportunities Fund’s money? I know it sounds kind of convoluted, but I mean interest rates are going up. Maybe the lenders could find a better deal somewhere else. Thank you.