Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate the Member’s comments. Obviously the Detah access road is an important item for the Member and we have provided, I believe, a $6 million program there. There are more needs for that road. We’ve got about I believe it’s between $500,000 and $700,000, and a little bit of carry-over for about a half-kilometre of work that’s left on that road. But going forward, I think, again, funding and finding sources of funding to carry out the remaining portions of work on the Detah access road is going to be something that’s important and we will need to find other opportunities to get more funding to address the concerns on that road.

The Member talked about the Highway No. 4 realignment. Certainly that’s a project that has been around for a little while. It’s a $17 million project. The money is coming from the Giant Mine Remediation Fund that the Government of the Northwest Territories had a $23 million liability there. We’re taking $17 million from that. The oversight will be provided by both AANDC and the Government of the Northwest Territories. Members can expect, like with other projects, to be updated on the progress of that project as it moves forward. There’s a very ambitious timeline on the realignment. We’re looking at proceeding to work here in the new year and have that realignment completed by the fall of 2012, with a final surfacing added in 2013, once the road settles. The Member can look forward to that project this coming year.

The Member also talked about risks associated with the Deh Cho Bridge Project. Again, from an oversight perspective, as the Minister of Transportation I take very seriously the project and the oversight of that project now rests with me. I’m certainly keeping a watchful eye on the progress of the Deh Cho Bridge. My goal is to keep Members adequately informed at every step. Tomorrow we’re going forward with a technical briefing to the media on the project and earlier today I sent out an e-mail to all Members advising them of that taking place, and also providing them with the information so that Members get the information first. I think that’s important that Members are kept apprised of what’s happening with that project. As we move forward, we’re moving towards the completion of the Deh Cho Bridge in the fall of next year, so we’re going to try to manage it the best that we can and to the best of our ability and will be keeping Members informed.

The Member also talked about climate change and its impact on our transportation infrastructure here in the Northwest Territories. Currently we’ve got I believe it’s $1.85 million through the Building Canada Plan to see how we can effectively deal with the impact that climate change is having on the infrastructure here in the Northwest Territories. We’re looking to projects and research that are going to help us as we move forward to better address the issues of climate change.

The Member also asked about a cost-benefit analysis on the Tuktoyaktuk to Inuvik highway. Currently there’s an economic analysis that has been conducted on that stretch of highway and that can be found on the Department of Transportation’s website for any Members that are interested in seeing it and the work that was done there. We are going to continue to pursue that project and try to move it forward. We do have the $150 million commitment from the federal government for the Tuk-Inuvik highway and there are a number of compelling reasons why the project should be advanced.

I believe we are working, as well, on the greenhouse gas and emissions. I thank the Member for raising that concern with us again today, and look forward to getting back to committee and perhaps getting some further insight from the Member on plans as we move them forward. Any help the Member can provide or input the Member can provide to us as we move those plans forward would be greatly appreciated, Madam Chair.

Finally, I believe Highway No. 7, and I wanted to just touch on this, obviously that is in need of a tremendous amount of funding. We’re looking at, just to keep things moving along, a $3 million a year program for 10 years, so $30 million. Again, our funding is just not conducive to allowing us to do everything we need to do or want to do, so we are going to have to move forward trying to find a way and a means to address the concerns on Highway No. 7. We do have a little bit of a carry-over from last year for Highway No. 7. It’s about $1.6 million. We’re hoping that that’s going to be just enough if there are some issues to address in the spring. But we need a long-term solution to Highway No. 7 and a lot of money to do it. Thank you.