Thanks, Madam Chair. Look, I have been up to Canyon Creek. I have seen the road. It was parcelled in a way that allowed the community to take better advantage of it, but that is not the project that was submitted back in 2013 to the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board. I just want to caution the Minister to make sure that, if you are going to submit something to environmental assessment, you better have it scoped out properly and you better have the money to do it. Otherwise, it's wasting time and it's wasting money.
If I had to pick one of the three big projects, I would probably pick Mackenzie Valley Highway. I think there is at least a prospect of doing that in a way that will benefit smaller communities and lead to some communities rather than the wilderness, perhaps. I think it raises unrealistic expectations. I never agreed to have the three infrastructure projects in the priority list from the Regular MLAs in the first place. I think it's just setting us up for failure by continuing to try to say that those three projects are going to get done or that they even can get started in the lifetime of this Assembly.
The kinds of projects I want to see are government focus on are things like housing, community infrastructure, environmental remediation. I think you have some prospect of actually attracting federal investment in those things over projects like the Slave Geological Province Road or even Taltson. Taltson, we don't have a market. We don't have buyers. There is not a feasibility study. There is no business case for it yet. In any event, I agree completely with my colleague from Yellowknife Centre that we should be revisiting the priorities, the big infrastructure projects, and focusing on one. Trying to say to the federal government we want to do all three at the same time, bad messaging.
If there is one other project that I think we should be advancing, that is connecting all the communities to high-speed Internet. We have seen the impacts of that as a result of COVID. We can't teach kids. Businesses can't access our services. We can't even hold meetings part of the time, because Members can't even get on at the same time. We have to fix that, and we need to fix that now. That should be the priority in terms of big infrastructure projects. I want to ask the Infrastructure Minister what she is doing to help make sure that all of our communities are connected to high-speed Internet and why that is not the priority. Thanks, Madam Chair.