Thank you, Mr. Chair. On Detah access, $2 million was approved in capital last fall. So we are working on the plan for that and actually for reconstructing the rest of the highway. We do hope that the recent announcement from the federal government under the Building Canada
Plan will provide an opportunity to reconstruct and chipseal that entire highway, but as that work progresses, we will be prepared. That work will be undertaken this summer. So we’ll have our contracting in place to have that work undertaken this summer.
Runway issues and climate change, we’ve talked in the past about the work that we are doing around climate change trying to prepare for, better understand what impacts changing climate will have on our infrastructure is already having and then trying to forecast what it might have in the future. One of the tools that we’re using there, the important one, is the vulnerability assessment, and we’ve applied that to several of our runways now just trying to get a better handle or idea of what might happen in the future assuming that the warming trend does continue. Inuvik is the one where it’s currently being applied with the depression that showed up there last fall quite suddenly tied to the work that we want to undertake this summer to fully repair and fix that.
So the full focus of looking at climate change is, of course, to better understand what might be happening in the future and then what we can do to adapt to the changes there.
The Inuvik-Tuk highway, lots of work underway there now and I think that the communities are definitely seeing the benefits of that work up to well over 100 people that are employed already on the project and anywhere around 80 percent of local and/or northern people that are working on that job along with a high percentage of contracting and subcontracting opportunities to the local northern companies. So I think the region in particular is feeling the benefits from that project already. Thank you.