Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, Mr. Speaker, I will focus my brief statement on a concern I have relating to air travel in the Kivallivik region. Over the past months, while travelling to my home communities of Arviat and Baker Lake, I've noticed that the airline staff have used English and French to welcome passengers on board the aircraft. To further compound this issue, the airline staff also delivers their vital air safety instructions in only English and French.

Mr. Speaker, these airlines making regular flights between Churchill, Arviat and Baker Lake, et cetera, rely on business generated, to a large extent, by Inuit consumers. Mr. Speaker, we should be able to assume that the airline staff would make a point of welcoming the passengers in their own language. It is even more critical, however, that all air safety instruction be delivered to passengers in their first language to ensure maximum clarity and subsequent safety precautions.