Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is all well and good to talk about what our government can do with regard to environmental protection and marine infrastructure, but I think the federal government has been conspicuous by its absence in some respects in the Northwest Territories. I am particularly referring to areas such as the small crafts harbours program of the Government of Canada, the Ministry of Transport, which has spent tens and hundreds of millions of dollars on small harbour improvement in the most unlikely places, such as freshwater lakes where there is primarily recreational use. I think it has been very politically appealing to the Government of Canada. Unfortunately, by and large they have overlooked the Northwest Territories, where our people are dependent upon the marine economy where the water is a critical transportation system and also a critical means of subsistence harvesting. All of which I know the Minister understands.
I would like to ask what headway has been made with getting the federal government, through the small crafts harbours program, to join with our government in providing for these tremendous needs that we have for marine infrastructure? Have there been any successes to date and will it be an area the Minister will be pursuing? Thank you.