Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, we have tried chipsealing the stretch of road from Fort Liard to the BC border in the past. Again, the
structural integrity of the road wasn’t there, so we ended up losing the chipsealed surface. Since that time we have reconstructed the first 20 kilometres, so it’s in reasonable condition. We had hoped to get all the way up to Fort Liard, and then once that entire stretch was reconstructed, then go and resurface or chipseal that stretch of road. Unfortunately, with limited capital funding, with the distress and the needs in the other sections of the highway, we took the capital funding that was available and redirected it to those other stretches that were in more urgent need of reconstruction.
Going forward, we do hope to identify some additional capital funding, and with that it will allow us to get back to that original plan, which is to reconstruct the stretch between Fort Liard and the BC border, and then ultimately put a chipsealed surface on it. The timing with when we get to that will depend on the amount of funding that we’re able to secure.