Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This dock is a dock such as you would find in a lot of the eastern communities. It is designed in a way that it will accommodate large ships. It may eventually accommodate ships that would be coming in to resupply the community and the regions.

The tanker moorings that we have decided to hold off for a year were specifically for unloading fuel from large ships. If you are asking if the marine resupply terminal is solely for resupplying the fuel supply in the Keewatin, I have to say no. That isn't solely designed to do that. It is designed to do a lot of other things besides that. Perhaps eventually, if fuel resupply boats come in, they may be able to utilize the terminal as well. Like I said, I have been told by the department that perhaps it is a bad name to put on it if you are trying to tie it to the overall resupply initiative in the Keewatin. I have to say it isn't solely for resupplying the Keewatin fuel. Thank you.

Thank you. Keewatin, Mr. O'Brien.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess my concern here is I don't want to be hoodwinked but, on the other hand, I don't want us going into a $100,000 review process with these committee meetings to study the feasibility of this project if this is the main component of it. If that is the case, we should wait. I would look foolish going into a committee when the project has already started.

Thank you. There was no question. Mr. O'Brien.

My question to the Minister is I have asked before if this is one of the main components of the fuel tank project in Rankin inlet. I know the Minister has indicated that this would be used for other uses, but he didn't indicate whether it was or wasn't the main part of the overall process.

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Thank you. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This terminal here is for resupply for the community and for the region in terms of dry cargo and freight. There are other components of this terminal that will come in future years. The way this particular terminal is designed right now, it could stand alone as a docking facility such as other communities have. If you go to Iqaluit, Pangnirtung or Cambridge Bay, they all have facilities that are there, but this one is designed in a way where it will accommodate the existing supply for the region. I know you are chairing a steering committee and you want to make sure you have all the options open. I have no problem with that. But this terminal is like a wharf. That is what it is.

Once your committee has done its work, they may say otherwise. They may say we will go ahead and provide a resupply facility in Rankin. They may say that. It may go positive rather than against it. So if that happens, we will start talking about the tanker moorings and the types of facilities we need to resupply the fuel at Rankin Inlet. Thank you.

Thank you. Total region, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you. We have total region. Mr. Steen.

Thank you. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Once we went through the budgeting process and following the committee recommendation that was to cut back $2.5 million after meeting our targets, we had to cut some more in the second year and some more in the third year. This department had taken quite a lot of cuts in the whole budgeting process. Once the $900,000 in the tanker mooring came up, I did say to the committee that I didn't want to cut any more and, therefore, that's why it remained in the books.

The committee is saying that they're surprised that it is still there. What I did is I recommended to the committee, approached the Financial Management Board and had approval to reallocate the $900,000 for the tanker moorings until after Mr. O'Brien's steering committee had done its work. The projects that we had approved were projects that were going to happen anyway in the next year. So what we did was just move some projects ahead. That's how we took care of that. I hope that explains the position that I've taken on this particular one to the honourable Member. Thank you.

Thank you. Total region. Mr. Steen.

Thank you. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The tanker moorings are not going to be done this year. They will be discussed again after Mr. O'Brien has done his work with the steering committee. Hopefully, by the end of the summer, we will have a report by that steering committee. At that time we will decide on what we are going to do, whether we are going to have tanker moorings or not. At the present time, we are not going to have tanker moorings this year. The committee is going to be doing its work and by the time it's finished its work its report, it will be after the building season. It will be too late to put any tanker moorings in Rankin Inlet. So rather than cutting the $900,000, we reallocated this to other projects that were going to happen next year anyway. I hope that explains the tanker moorings for this year, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.

Thank you. Total region, $3.324 million. Mr. Steen.

Thank you. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The tanker moorings is on the books but we have all agreed here, following the committee's recommendation and approval of the Financial Management Board, that that $900,000 for the tanker moorings has been reallocated to other projects within the Department of Transportation and that we will revise this estimate after we have concluded. Thank you.

Thank you. Total region, $3.324 million. Mr. Henry.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Did I hear the Minister making the statement that $750,000 of that $1.05 million is being provided by the federal government?

Thank you. Mr. Minister.