Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The honourable Member makes some good points, but I would
like to get into the area where the feds have been funding port facilities, moorings and so forth in Canada and in the North. In the Nunavut area, they have been doing that for some time now. They've invested a lot of money in building up the area here and they continue to do that. They need to do that through joint arrangements with this government. There's the strategic transportation improvement agreement, which this department has signed with Transport Canada, which provides Transport Canada to continue to help develop docks, wharfs and moorings in the Eastern Arctic. They will continue to do this. We're spending some of our money, half of the money comes from the federal government, they still provide us with the funds to provide facilities into the Eastern Arctic. This is where most of this funding is going. There are requests by communities. When I did my tour in the Baffin and Keewatin, the communities were still asking for more docking facilities and wharfs. They require this in some areas. This government is going to continue to do this as long as we have cost sharing arrangements with the federal government. Thank you.