Thank you, Madam Chair. I would be remiss if we were talking about bridges and I didn't bring up the Great Bear River bridge. It has, I have to say, would have been a disappointment for me to not see this project advance at all, really, in the four years considering I had actually tried to be part of the team to build it in 2018 or 2017. So knowing the money has been sitting around for that long, it's quite concerning to me that we are not advancing that. And I guess just to kind of get a little bit of a plug in for anybody listening that may want to sit in the 20th, to me I can't stress an infrastructure project that's more needed than the Mackenzie Valley Highway. If I could go back now -- and this'll make my colleague from Frame Lake happy, if I could go back now I would scrap the other two infrastructure projects and have focused ourselves only on Mackenzie Valley Highway. I have noticed that over the last four years -- or note the just absolute inability for those regions to move forward without having a proper accessible route for their supplies, for their building materials. Having tried to execute projects in Tulita, in Norman Wells, in places where I only had limited access to equipment, it was very, very difficult, costly, and quite frankly, not even necessary often because by the time you would do the work, you couldn't do enough of it to really have any impact. So that's kind of more just a comment that I wanted to make.

But could the Minister please give us an update, are we actually go to see anything happen -- I'm very -- struggling with the word planning that's in there, and that makes me think that this is just going to be yet another round of consultants' reports that go nowhere. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate that information. And, again, always happy to hear other people are paying money for things that we need.

I'm just looking at the highway reconstruction projects. And, like I said, great to hear they're at 100 percent. I note that the highway - Highway no. 3 is not on there. So is any work that would needed to be done in order to the -- sort of the approaches, etcetera, with regards to the bridge, would that come in under the bridge replacement costs, or will there be a separate piece at some point under highway reconstruction or highway costs? I guess I'm just trying to get a feel for is the Frank Channel bridge amount that was given to us by the federal government the all-in cost, or will we see some accommodation costs on the highway that we need to take care of ourselves? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. That's fine. I would like to just ask a little bit about the Redknife River Bridge replacement. It's my understanding that this comes -- the money for this work will be coming from De Beers in exchange for some sort of a regulatory offset that they were doing. Can the Minister speak to whether that is the truth, and how much that project is going to bring in? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can the Minister or department tell me who was awarded that contract and how much it was for? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. First off, I just wanted to note again that something I had said in the opening remarks for the capital estimates is that we see a lot of 100 percent dollars this time around in the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Plan, which is a huge chunk of these large capital projects that are $82 million here. So that being said, it's great to see that this is not -- even though it's an $82 million sum, the majority of it is not our money, which is great. It's going to be an influx into our territory and our communities, which is sorely needed.

When I look at all the highway reconstruction jobs that are going on, again, the only one that's not at 100 percent funded is Highway 10, so -- which is at 75, which isn't too bad either.

I guess just to get into some of the details of this, I'm really quite concerned given our summer and my statement the other day about climate change and our lack of preparedness. I'm seeing that the Fort Simpson liquefied natural gas plant is in here. And it's only at $500,000 right now. Oh, you know what, sorry, I'm in the wrong spot for that one. My apologies. Sorry, I'll go back to the Frank Channel bridge.

The Frank Channel bridge, it's my understanding that the last -- when the Minister gave us the update was that they were awarding the engineer -- the owner's engineer for the contract. I see that that is closed. Can the Minister tell us if that work has actually been awarded and is now start -- has started? Where is that at? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Is this the end of the work for the North Arm Park, or is it expected to continue into 2025-2026? Thank you.

Yes, I very much agree with the Minister on this one. It is such a rich part of our history and really could be, yes, like you said a -- she said, a flagship for that. I guess just wanting to confirm that these two North Arm projects for -- that are done in the region for Behchoko, those are both done under the Tlicho Infrastructure Agreement? Can the Minister confirm that.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I think -- I just wanted to ask a little bit about the Canol Trail and the emergency shelters. I am not super familiar with where this is at, but I did know at one point there was a lot of remediation that was still left around the Canol Trail. Without, you know, asking for too much detail, is that coming to completion to the point where the Canol Trail is going to be more of a tourism destination or, you know, have more areas opened up as a result of remediation? I know there was a lot of challenges remediating it because it's very inaccessible to heavy equipment so a lot of it would have had to have been done by hand. So if maybe the Minister could just give us a bit of an update on that, that would be great.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, I totally appreciate the complexity of that as well because I know those pull-outs and those recreational use areas will become quite -- quite popular with the public. So you definitely have to make sure that they're in the right spots. Just looking at some of these things here, I did have an opportunity to see the new -- some of the new work that had been done around the North Arm Park in the last couple of years and thought it was pretty good, and everything was looking quite good in a lot of our parks over the time. But I just wanted to point out too that not only not having the sort of pull-outs and areas along the Inuvik-Tuk Highway is not just a sort of discomfort thing, but it also becomes like an environmental and health issue if people are starting to use places for the washroom that they should not be. And I do believe that was another complaint I did hear through the evacuation that some of the sort of sandpit pull-out areas along the highway became basically large outhouses for people. So I do think it is something when we do emergency response and such that if we are going to evacuate people 15 hours south, we need to ensure they can go to the bathroom somewhere.

I think my other question has to do with has there been any talk around installing things like WiFi or cellular service into the territorial parks along -- along the highways south or the egress routes? I get, again, that this is ITI, but, again, duplicating effort, it would make sense that people could go in and use WiFi at campgrounds. And I'm not sure if that -- that might already be existing, and I'm just not aware. Thank you, Madam Chair.