Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't know if there are any agreements with YTG to maintain it. The money comes to reconstruct it. I don't recall how much we've received lately, but it has been in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't know. After this point it's mostly American.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, I think about our Shakwak jobs; probably the last one we did that I was part of was in 1995. My remembrance of it before that is probably not very good. I personally have not really seen that much change in the permafrost. It's just that once you unbury, you get the rock off it, and you get down into it, it changes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, not really.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, yes, a good place for the Porcupine aboriginal company to go.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we were over there, and it was a pretty brutal experience for us. I can't see us going back. Maybe if we could get some good partnerships, perhaps.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Oh, no, we do have competition for the Alaskan money. It's just not the Alaskans who have come over but of course there are a number.... It would be the same people who bid on the work this summer, brought out by YTG. I think there were probably eight or ten bidders, some from the Yukon, some from B.C.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's true. We've built many things in northern Canada. The only tricky part was to get to Antarctica, because of course we had to use the South Klondike Highway to Skagway and barge everything down to Chile, and then over into Antarctica. When we actually got to the job, it was quite simple.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think you're talking about Old Crow and Stephen Mills. The road into the community is about 200 kilometres that we build into the winter road, which we've done three times that I know of since 1980. That is just a winter road. We start building it in mid-January and it's out by April.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not sure which places are exactly the worst, but from probably just outside Toad River to Watson Lake. So it's what? A couple of hundred kilometres?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, we have not been that far, as far as Nunavut.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I have never thought of going to Nunavut, so I don't know what's there, if there are any restrictions or not.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think there would be other businesses. I would think anyone who has a wide load would have issues coming up the highway. I would think anyone who has a heavy load would have issues coming up the highway. I would think that if the pipeline ever went through, they would have issues, because how are they going to get that many rigs up the highway and get through the Muncho Lake area?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, our projects are in mining, but we also know how to build a road. It is a barrier when you have to cut your equipment apart to get it up here. It's the boxes of the 777 ore trucks. Yes, we would probably bid on that job to widen the road.