Thank you.
Thank you all for being here. It's very interesting.
I'm going to go to Mr. Onalik of the Northern Economic Development Agency.
I have limited experience in the north. I've never been to Nunavut. I've had a little time in the Northwest Territories and a fair bit in the Yukon. I have been in Inuvik in that period when the rivers are breaking up, when you can't get across on the ferries and you can't drive across on the ice, and as a result, there's no food in the restaurants in Inuvik except caribou. I've also spent a summer in Old Crow, where everybody ran down to meet the plane whenever it landed, just to see what food might be on there.
I'm wondering what your agency is involved with in terms of projects to develop land highways. There's the Mackenzie Valley highway project, but we also hear increasingly of the ice roads becoming less and less reliable. Very many communities in the north need that supply.
How much priority are you putting on something like the Mackenzie Valley highway project, which would connect the Northwest Territories from north to south, or south to north?