Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, one can support a motion without voting in favour of it and that is the situation I'm likely to find myself in, and my colleagues here in Cabinet will be abstaining on this. But I did want to speak to the motion.
The Member from the Sahtu has been voracious in terms of promoting the need for this highway. Mr. Speaker, myself, my office, we hear from him regularly. And, Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that. It helps keep us on our toes, and it helps push something, and it helps push something when there's so many other things going on. There is absolutely no doubt of the importance of this project to the Sahtu region, to Nahendeh, to the communities along the way, and I am pleased to say there's a lot of work happening in this space right now. I am very hopeful that a renewed MOU with the SSI will be signed quite imminently. That was referenced by the Member. That does help on structure, the organization between the SSI and GNWT in terms of advancing this project. We have renewed work now happening with the Pehdzeh Ki First Nation and supporting their interest in how they want to see themselves reflected in the future of this project.
Mr. Speaker, the Member from Range Lake took this away from me. I was going to note that I also happen to know that Cece McCauley said something slightly different about how to build that highway. And, Mr. Speaker, I have a little picture of her with that quote sitting on my desk. So, Mr. Speaker, and I have one more thing on this; I'm, in fact, meeting with the Department of Infrastructure tomorrow to talk about what we might do to advance the construction schedule on this highway and see what we could do to move this forward. It's, again, as we do, Cabinet will abstain but, again, that doesn't mean that there's any lack of support or any less drive. Happy to have the motion to help keep that momentum going. Thank you.