Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My question to the Minister is in relation to privatization that this government is supposed to be working towards. Mr. Chairman, I would like to point out that in all other major communities where we have shipping, like Hay River, Inuvik and Tuk -- Tuk is a very large staging area -- private enterprise supplies their own docking facilities. My question here is why are we building docking facilities for private enterprise when, if they see the need for it, they build it anyway. Why are we forking out money when we are suggesting that everything else should be privatized, they do it better than us? So why are we doing it? Why are we doing this when maybe private enterprise should be doing it? Obviously, the main user of this terminal is going to be the shipping companies, so I don't understand why we don't privatize the thing and just let industry build it themselves instead of us doing it.
I would also like to point out that the federal government has been walking away from building ports and mooring facilities unless they have harbour authorities or port authorities which would then allow them to collect and charge for the use of these facilities. We seem to be about 50 years behind the feds in this case. We should maybe follow their example. I wonder if the Minister could respond to that.