Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the Member is well aware, in 2015, the Department of Transportation did a territorial-wide strategy on transportation. That strategy laid out a 25-year plan. We went out and consulted with the public of the Northwest Territories, Indigenous leaders, industry right across the territories, and in that plan, Mr. Speaker, the people of the Northwest Territories asked us to pursue six major projects, a number of them that have been successful in this 18th Assembly. The Mackenzie Valley Highway, the Slave Geological Province, the Tlicho all-season road, improved Highway No. 7 in the Member's riding of Deh Cho, dredging of the Hay River port, and a deep water port in Tuktoyaktuk.
Now, this has been a guiding strategy for us. It's led to our priorities of this government, and it's clearly a laid out 25-year plan for our transportation strategy across the Northwest Territories, and we've been successful on a number of these projects in this 18th Legislative Assembly to access funding. We can't even complete the ones that we have on the list. It's going to be very difficult for me to go forward and ask the federal government to support a road to Aklavik at this time.