Madam Chair, I appreciate the Member’s concerns. However, we got the marching orders from this Legislative Assembly to pursue new opportunities and that is something that the department is doing. I believe wholeheartedly that we can balance the demands on maintaining the system that we have while pursuing new objectives. We have a ready, willing and able partner in the federal government.
In looking at the construction of the Inuvik-Tuk highway, we are going through the environmental
assessment currently. We are going to determine what the cost of that highway is going to be. We have not got there yet, so anybody that is throwing numbers around, that is all it is, just throwing numbers around. We will determine what the cost is going to be.
We take safety on our road system as of paramount importance to the department and to this government. We take that seriously. We try to balance all of those demands, and I do believe the department is doing a good job in balancing the demands that are out there. We can’t just sit back and rest on our laurels. I think we need to pursue new projects. We need to grow this territory. We need to grow the economy here. By building new pieces of infrastructure in this territory, that is how we are going to build the territory. That is how we are going to grow the economy. That is how we are going to lower the cost of living to some of our residents in the isolated communities. That is something the government takes seriously. We are going to pursue that. Thank you.