Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the Member for his comments. Just to point out what we know now, there are two calls with deputy ministers from across the country both for infrastructure and transportation with their respective Ministers. In a lot of cases, the appropriate federal or territorial Ministers will be involved in the calls to talk about follow-up from the budget today. We will be looking at, probably in the very near future, some detail about what that means for us as we look at our planning and the cost-shared dollars and the degree of cost-shared portions – is it 50/50, 60/40 – and the amount of money.
We recognize the two highways. I know Mr. Menicoche talks about Highway No. 7, but Highway No. 8 is also up near the top that needs work, highway infrastructure. So we’re looking for an opportunity here and some resources to follow through on that.
I appreciate the Member’s comments about his general sense of the bill. We are going to work hard to implement all the initiatives in there. We’re going to continue to work with regions and communities
on services, especially to seniors. Of course, comments I made about small community concerns apply equally to the Member’s constituency. The challenge we have on a go-forward basis is trying to address the long-outstanding issues. As the Member and I have discussed over supper a number of times the nurse at Tsiigehtchic, for example, is an issue. We are very cognizant of that concern and I appreciate the Member’s comments. Thank you.