Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I appreciate the Member’s concerns about Highway No. 7 and the condition they’re in. Also, the condition as it relates to tourism in the Deh Cho, in his riding, it’s a situation where we have approved a capital plan. We are having some difficulty trying to come up with a long-term plan, which will be required for Highway No. 7, but we are going to need to do that. It needs to be reconstructed. Most of that highway will need some substantial reconstruction in the neighbourhood of $250 million. Those dollars we just do not have today. I think going forward we need to try to find a way to get some capital dollars in a substantial way

into Highway No. 7, but currently that’s just not the case. The Member has talked of it and I know the Finance Minister has talked to this, as well, about the fact that we’re carrying over approximately $1.3 million. I don’t have a crystal ball, but that money will undoubtedly be spent early in the season and if need be, we are going to have to come forward with some type of emergency or special supplementary funding if an emergency does arise, and I think that’s something that we have to live with. We just don’t have any other choice.

So we’re going to have to watch things closely as they play themselves out, and I just want to assure the Member that we need to find a long-term plan to address the condition of Highway No. 7 in a meaningful way and that is going to include a substantial amount of capital dollars to begin the reconstruction of that road. That hopefully can happen here in the next few years that we can chart a course forward for Highway No. 7. But again, we need the dollars, Madam Chair. Thank you.