Again, like my colleague from Nahendeh, I had an opportunity to drive down here from the Mackenzie Delta along the Dempster. I mean, no fault to the road, it was pretty wet and
pretty slippery. Again, I think it’s got to be expected from the roads that do have a clay base and we are seeing a real effect to those roads. I think we have to find either a new method of dealing with protecting the surface of our highways and reducing the overall operational costs and resurfacing costs to our highways year after year after year. I think we do have to look at the possibility of looking at some sort of surface appliance, whether it’s chipseal or good old Easy Street. I think that we have to make that investment.
I had the opportunity to drive on the roads through the Yukon. Most of their roads are chipsealed to most of their communities. With regard to travelling on Highway No. 97, I believe, in northern B.C. from the Alaska Highway to the NWT junction just before Fort Liard, they’ve resurfaced the whole highway. I think that if we can look at the long-term viability of resurfacing all our highways with some sort of means of protecting the hardtop.
Do we have a long-term capital investment plan looking at some sort of means of resurfacing our highways throughout the Northwest Territories and protecting our capital investment by way of infrastructure?