Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to pick up where I left off there. The Minister was claiming that I said the people of this region were not worthy, and various other twists to my words. I thought I remembered saying the people were spectacular and the region was spectacular, and they have huge capacity up there if they are involved in real economic development. It does seem to be a feature of this government that they often twist words and make our comments sound as if we have no trust in our people and stuff like this, but I do want to point that out, that in fact I was saying that the people were indeed worthy, and worthy of better than a road like this. That is just an aside there.

The maintenance costs are something again that has been a concern. We have got some information on that, but there didn’t seem to be understanding that, in fact, the road, especially in the more northerly portions, does go over a zone of remnant glacial ice. I believe that was what my colleague Ms. Bisaro was referring to. This is the remnant Wisconsin Glacier. I believe the department officials certainly know that this is the case.

Another high risk factor, of course, is this is the zone where the greatest impacts from climate change are known to be occurring. The rate is very fast and the degree of warming is extreme. To what degree, I guess recognizing and combining these factors, the fact that this area over which the road is being built has not just got permafrost, it has substantial ice lenses that are more than ice lenses, they are remnant chunks, vast chunks of Wisconsin Glacier in combination with the degree of warming in the order of 15 degrees that can be expected, Celsius, in our winters. Can the Minister comment on that aspect of it? Thank you.