First of all, the Canyon Creek access road that we just announced was initiated by the Sahtu region. This was brought forward a long time ago by the people of Sahtu and the Aboriginal governments. They spend a significant amount of time and energy on this project to advance it. It speaks to the benefits like the Member just stated of jobs and employment opportunities and training. Federal opportunities came along at the right time for this project and allowed this project to move forward, and it has.

If the Member's community of Wrigley and the Deh Cho wanted to have an interest in promoting a project similar to this in their region, they would have to identify something similar to their project and they would have to contribute to the long-term objective of the Mackenzie Valley Highway, meaning we would like it to probably line up significantly with the project so it wouldn't take away from the project. If they were to do something like that we would certainly sit down with them to look at opportunities and how we would support it and seek opportunities for federal funding for such a project.