Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a question I would like to direct to the Minister of Transportation who will soon be responsible for the Arctic A airports. Mr. Speaker, as long as I can remember, there have always been firefighters at airports whenever passenger flights come in and take off. But, as of April of this year, the federal government has cut back and that program is going to be discontinued. In some cases, it already has been and the responsibility has been given to the communities nearest the airports.

The firefighters in the town, the volunteer fire departments, are claiming that they are taking on this responsibility without adequate training. They didn't want the job to begin with, but it has been put on their shoulders without proper training. I would like to ask the Minister if his department is aware of the amount of training that the local firefighters are going to be receiving from the federal government as part of this cutback program.