Thank you. We make long-term investments in the territory, that’s what we do as a government. Seventeen Assemblies have been working, Assembly after Assembly, to put infrastructure in the ground, on the ground that improves the quality of life that helps build the territory that we all agreed is part of our vision. Part of that critical infrastructure is roads. A road, the northernmost section of the Mackenzie Highway has been a critical part of the northern dream for longer than I can remember. So if the Member is asking if we look around the North for every dollar we spend, where do we get our money back, where is the economic return on our investment, then we would have a very interesting, challenging discussion, because we make political decisions in our political self-interests that may not have that immediate return on the dollar. But if you look, over time, the value of a road that opens up the northernmost part of the territory, I believe the Member’s comments are prefaced on the assumption that somehow there will never be any further activity up in the Mackenzie Delta, the Beaufort-Delta, when we know it’s sitting on a storehouse of resources. What we invest today, I believe, over time, will prove its value the same as the bridge will. There’s no longer people complaining about the bridge, except maybe politically about the process, but nobody talks about gosh, I really miss the days of the ferry and the winter road and all the uncertainty and not being able to travel 24/7 and, man, those were the good old days that I really long for.

So this is, I think, a territory-building, nation-building investment. It is going to have economic impact far beyond the term of this Assembly. Thank you.