Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We agree that the ferry operations in the Beaufort-Delta went very well this year. I do believe traffic was closed for one day only. I’m sorry, I had an understanding it was only closed for one day for regular traffic. The deputy minister tells me it was actually eight days. I don’t know if that was heavy traffic. I guess on average we were closed for eight days.
The aviation scholarship is something that people do benefit from. We do have a reduction in that scholarship this year, but we’re also re-examining how we can use that scholarship money.
Investment in the Inuvik-Tuk highway has gone very well, no question about that. We are on schedule and maybe even slightly ahead of schedule. The money we anticipated spending for that highway is something we will spend. We’re going to get an opportunity for Members of this House to look at it firsthand on March 16th and 17th as we travel up there with the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Infrastructure.
The Inuvik airport road is in the plan for the Building Canada Plan. I can’t remember the exact amount we put in there, $10 million to fix the dips and try to fix it permanently. They will patch it or fill it and it will sink again, so they’ve come up with a more permanent solution. So we have some money in there for that.
The Inuvik runway, I’m going to have the deputy minister talk about this one because there was some research and stuff that went on there. Thank you, Mr. Chair.