Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Department of Transportation, particularly the airport here in Yellowknife has land around the airport and there is a development plan that has been in place for a number of years now. In this plan there is identification of blocks of land for different uses right at the airport for immediate access to the airport and so forth. We also have land there that is away from the airport between the Mackenzie Highway and the service road where there is non-airport related businesses that have established there and there is land available for such businesses. The intention of the department of transportation is not to compete against the Yellowknife businesses or the city of Yellowknife. In fact these lands are available for commercial development. They applied to us, and they go through NavCan approval and Transport Canada approval. Then they have to go to the city for the final approval of their development proposal. Once that is done, then the Department of Transportation then receives revenue at the airport for leasing the land, and the city in turn collects the taxes on these properties. There is a cooperation between the city and the Department of Transportation in developing these lands. We do not regard this whole process as competing with any business in this town. That is not the intention. The intention here is that the Yellowknife airport would like to generate revenue so that it could operate and function as an airport. The rezoning of the whole airport plan is initiated by the department and this is done with the city of Yellowknife and the intention here is to rezone all the airport property so that we have better control of what type of businesses

and what type of commercial enterprises would establish at the airport. We try to have the type of businesses established at the airport that is pure to the airport operation and is related to air services and so forth. Thank you.