Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’ve had a theme of safety today, so I’m going to continue on this theme with the Minister of Transportation.

As we indicated today, the first day of November, we are hoping the opening of the much anticipated Deh Cho Bridge is going to be happening in this month. As we’ve heard in our dialogue earlier in some of our capital discussions, we are dealing with some temporary issues as we prepare to go across this bridge in a degree of safety. What I mean by that is we have temporary electrical set up, we have temporary aviation marine lights hooked up, we have temporary navigation, we have temporary accent lighting, we have temporary conduit or conduit that needs to be done. More importantly, we don’t have an active or operating emergency phone system. These are all not actively in a final state.

Can the Minister assure that, because these are obviously requirements for safety and for the completion of this bridge, that indeed if this bridge will be open here at the end of November, are NWT residents safe? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.