Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to respond to Mr. Bromley’s comments. Again, I respect Mr. Bromley’s position. I don’t agree with everything and his arguments on why he should not support the $2.5 million, but the way I look at it, and again people are trying to make parallels with the Deh Cho Bridge and it’s just not an accurate depiction of this project because we have a partner that’s putting in $150 million into this project and that’s the federal government. We didn’t have that with the Deh Cho Bridge project.
Again, I think this project is developing our territory from a number of perspectives. The federal government being our partner, they’re interested in sovereignty. Arctic sovereignty has been a big issue. That’s at the forefront of the decision to support the construction of the highway, social development of the region and also economic development. Those real jobs that Mr. Bromley talks about, they are going to be born out of resource extraction of some type. In the Beaufort-Delta, oil and gas development, both onshore and offshore, that’s where the real jobs are and that’s where the real development in that region of our territory is going to take place and that’s how it’s going to happen. This road is just a part. It will make up the foundation of the potential economic prosperity of the Beaufort-Delta.
So, again, I respect Mr. Bromley’s thoughts, but I tend to disagree with him. Thank you.