Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First of all, I would like to thank the Member for noticing the efforts the department has put into the system across the Northwest Territories. However, as the Member said, this is a very difficult section of highway. We continue to monitor it and work on it. The short-term maintenance that we are doing on it, trying to improve this thing, is starting to pay off, but that is not a long-term fix. We are going to continue to look at doing that. The department will be undertaking a multi-year rehabilitation on this part of the road for this project, to improve the drainage in particular in that area and also widen and strengthen the existing grade.

Moving forward, though, in 2018-2019, we are going to continue to spend $3.5 million on Highway No. 1 to widen and reconstruct and improve drainage and do these sorts of things on kilometer 207 to 212, and we will continue to do that. We could also take up the Member's comments and look at maybe reverting this back to gravel until we can get the reconstruction and improvements required that can be able to have chipseal that would last for a longer term.

He made mention to a test section on this section of highway. We are also monitoring this section -- it is actually called Allcrete -- to determine if this new form of road stabilization could be something that we could use in the long term to find a solution to that section.