Thank you, Madam Chair. I promise I'm only going to try and only talk for about ten minutes this whole main estimates review, and all of it's going to be about asset management. And I know this section's called asset management but I guess more in regards to all of the assets in the department.
Last -- earlier in this session, the Minister gave an update on road construction and she said there was, you know, $45 million improving our highways and bridges and 160 kilometres of chip seal. And as she was giving that statement, I tried to look through previous, you know, main estimates and the capital budget and whatever documents existed to get a sense of what that number meant. You know, it's kind of a completely meaningless number, I think, in context without any context. You know, the department's budget is over $300 million. We spend hundreds of millions on capital for roads and bridges so it's just hard to know whether $45 million is any amount of money. And, you know, I get the department wants to kind of celebrate its work, but it would be helpful if there was some sort of public information on how much we spend each year, what is the state of our roads and bridges, how often they're inspected, you know, and so you could look back in time to see whether we're spending more or less or whether maybe we did far more than 160 kilometres every single year before that. But that's not currently public information. Many jurisdictions publish -- their departments of transportation publish some sort of highways report, roads and bridges report. It just kind of summarizes the quality of everything and the cost of everything and the work that's going on. I know the department obviously has all that information, but is publishing it in some sort of form that's coherent something the Minister would be willing to do? Thank you