Madam Chair, I thank the Member for his questions. First off, on the Willow River gravel access road, I have been here for a few years. I have seen how, when a community wants access to a gravel source, that is arrived at. We had a couple of Members who I worked with from Nunakput, who kept talking about Gravel Source 177 and the importance to the community to get at that gravel source. When a funding source was found through the Building Canada Plan, that road became a reality, working with the federal government and the community. I believe the community of Tuk put a million dollars into that road as well.
If you look closer to the Legislature, here in Yellowknife, the city of Yellowknife bypass road, as well, when we had access to the federal program, that is when we saw that road get constructed as well. Again, it was a partnership with the Government of the Northwest Territories, the federal government and the City of Yellowknife.
We are very hopeful – again, I have mentioned this to other Members – that come 2014, we are going to have access to another federal infrastructure program that hopefully will allow us to take a look at projects like that and others around the Northwest Territories. Right now, we don’t have the capital dollars to be looking at community access to gravel. That is the reality that we are living in today. Hopefully, during the life of this government, we are going to have access to some more capital dollars so that we can be taking a look at those types of projects.
I want to thank the Member for the support of the Tuk-Inuvik highway. We certainly look forward to getting the cost estimates complete sometime between mid-January and the start of session in February-March and making some decisions so that we can get to work. There are a couple of sections, one out of Inuvik and one out of Tuk that don’t require the permitting, that are shovel ready, that we can get to work on. The region desperately needs the work and the investment. We are anxious to, again, continue to move that forward. Again, I want to thank the Member for his support on that. Thank you.