Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for appearing in front of us today.
I noted that in your opening remarks you mentioned infrastructure and the need for infrastructure. Today, I'd like to focus my questions on highways in the north.
Since 1988, Canada has had a national highway system. It was first endorsed and defined by the council of ministers, but when you look at what that highway system is, particularly in the north, it's a bunch of gravel roads. That's part of our national highway system. This is all data from Transport Canada's website. I looked at our national highway system in the Northwest Territories, for example, and I note that it goes to Wrigley, Yellowknife and Inuvik.
First of all, I'm wondering if you could tell us what exactly is the highway to Wrigley. Is it paved or unpaved? For the benefit of people watching, according to the latest data I have, about 1,687 kilometres of our national highway system is gravel. It's unpaved. That's what is defined as part of our national highway system.
I'm wondering what this part of our national highway system is. Is it a paved surface? Is it unpaved? Is it two lanes, one in each direction, or multi-lane? What is that highway?