Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The highway remains safe. We have made the effort to lower the posted speed limit on that highway.
The Member is right; it has soaked up a tremendous amount of capital dollars over the years, and is in constant requirement for funding for maintenance and maintenance work. The work has been studied on maintenance. We are doing research on the road itself, again, to try to mitigate the impact climate change has had on that highway. We’ll have to continue to put money into that highway. Through Corridors for Canada III we’re looking at another investment to rehabilitate the highway, somewhere around $40 million. So it’s another substantial investment in that highway.
Again, I’m going to sound like a broken record, but there’s not a lot of money to spread around in this capital budget when it comes to highways. It’s very bare bones. It is $90 million, but if you take out the Inuvik-Tuk highway, there’s not a lot of money to go around to other highways in the Northwest Territories and that includes Highway No. 3 in this instance. Thank you.