Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Pollard, you made reference to strong regional centres like Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet, Inuvik, Simpson, Fort Smith. Mr. Minister, what do you classify the Kitikmeot region as? We have a regional centre. Can I ask your opinion? What do you think of our region? Are we strong or are we still crawling? Are we too weak to stand on our own two feet and get government PYs?
For your information too, Mr. Minister, you made reference to transportation links. I want to bring you up to date on the transportation services Cambridge Bay has. They have N.W.T. Air or Air Canada, they have Canadian Airlines and they have First Air. For Coppermine, we have First Air and Ptarmigan. So, some of these things, although I support you on decentralization, I would be happy just to get a wee, wee bit of PYs for my region.
A good example would be Arctic airports in Cambridge Bay, if you have not decided where to put it. We have the environmental weather station there, you know those things with the balloons that they send out? We have that. We have the D.E.W. Line, Cam Main, and surely we are not in short supply of accommodations. We have a Co-op Store, we have the Bay, and it is a regional centre. I want your honest opinion, what do you classify the Kitikmeot as? What kind of region?