Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today, I want to talk about a program that is a very good program for the community, called the Community Access Program.

Mr. Speaker, that program at this point has about $1 million in it, and that's distributed to the communities. It seems like a small program, which it is a small program, but I found benefits to that program to be very big, actually. The benefits of being able to access gravel, as an example, is just one benefit that the Community Access Program, I found was something that was very positive for the community.

Some of the communities right now actually bring in a contractor that can come into the community with a crusher, crush gravel, and then they use that gravel around the community for foundations or roads, and so on.

One of the things that I thought ongoing funding for a program like the Community Access Program would provide would be the flow of money each year through that program that will allow a community say, for example, like Lutselk'e to buy themselves a small crusher, something they would need. By using that crusher to continue to build a road to Austin Lake is one of the places the elders thought would be very beneficial to opening up traditional area that, right now, people are accessing in the wintertime by snowmobile, and the summertime by four-wheeler. It's very difficult to get a boat into that area of their territory. One of the things they had asked is that a road be built out that way, and this is an access road program that can do that. It puts people to work. It trains people. Aurora College is putting a shop up for HEOs, heavy equipment operators, and this program can do that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.