Madam Chair, once again, the debate by Members that live in the regions where they have just about all their infrastructure needs met and asking people in the northern part of the territory and the Beaufort-Delta, why do you need a road, it’s a sinkhole, it’s not worth investing up there. That, as Northerners, somehow we do not consider you worthy putting in things that we take for granted, the road, the bridge, the Ingraham Trail, the bypass road. That type of infrastructure which we take for granted here somehow becomes a megaproject that’s not economically viable in the northern part of the Territories. It is something I can’t get my mind around to accept as a valid issue.
We are going to spend about $60 million to $80 million. Let’s talk about the fibre optic line. It’s going to make Inuvik one of two places in the world that’s going to do remote sensing, that we know in Kiruna, Sweden, it’s built up an industry in Kiruna worth about $100 million to $150 million a year. We are working on a joint venture structure with the Aboriginal governments. That project is underway and will be well along construction in the life of this Assembly. We’re going to continue to do all the other work that we do supporting local business. We will see what happens with the resource sector. There are plenty of other opportunities in the region but they need infrastructure, which gets us back to roads.