Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I have questioned the replacement of the air terminal building in Resolute, and also the replacement of the air terminal building in Sanikiluaq. I look at a million and a half dollars being spent on the replacement of the air terminal building in Resolute, for a population of 171 people. I look at the replacement of the Sanikiluaq airport for $850,000 for 526 people. Can the Minister tell me why the inequities in the amounts of money? Is it construction costs or size or what? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, Resolute Bay is one of the A airport transfers and it is a fairly large airport. It has the jet services up there and it services a mine on Little Cornwallis Island. It also is quite a tourist attraction as it seems to be the jumping off spot for the North Pole and points north. As part of the Arctic A transfer, Mr. Chairman, $2,500,000 was transferred from the federal government for replacement of this airport terminal building. This is one time funding for this particular project. As a result, the facility is fairly large. If the honourable Member has ever been up to Resolute Bay you will know that there is a lot of facilities up there that were put in previous years by the federal government and different research institutions, as well as military. So, it is quite a big establishment up there, and part of the arrangement was to put in quite a substantial air terminal building. In regards to Sanikiluaq replacement of the air terminal building, the existing building is an Atco building, metal side, trailer-type structure, erected by Transport Canada in the early 70s, and I am told that it has out-lived its economic life and therefore requires changing. It is fairly small and inadequate to accommodate the current volume of people who are travelling. As a result, we are putting in this building to replace an old building. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Minister has given us some very good information about the federal government contributing to this and also that it is a class A airport. Resolute is a class A airport. He also talked about the potential for tourism in the mines, so do I understand that although the population of Resolute is only 171 as opposed to the population of Sanikiluaq being 526, that the opportunities from tourist traffic and from the mine will certainly bring the use up to much more than the 171 population of Resolute. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Resolute Bay airport is, I am told, a hub in northern Canada, it receives jet service and from there, there is chartered services that go out into the smaller communities. In a way it is kind of an international hub as well. It provides for a lot of different activity over the years and into the future you are going to see them use this airport and this facility as a hub for northern Canada. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. What is the special allocations of Resolute for a couple of projects for at least four different areas? From area from 25,000 to a million and a half, to 150,000 to 30,000. At least four different projects stayed for Resolute area.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this facility in the Resolute Bay was built in 1953 and was never really replaced. They are scheduled here to rehab some of their runway and the taxi apron and the Resolute Bay terminal building and as well as to replace parking maintenance garage in Resolute Bay and replace the safety fencing that is around the community. At the present time, Resolute Bay has a lot of old buildings in the airport area and we are operating and maintaining them. The goal of this department, since we took over two years ago, is that we are trying to build an airport terminal building that will do away with the old structure and put something new and modern there. We plan to build a parking maintenance garage and that way we will have a reason to eliminate a lot of the old buildings that we are still maintaining in the whole airport area. This will save us on the operation maintenance cost in the long run as well. Thank you.

Agreed.

I am just agreeing. Sorry. I was going to speak about Resolute but I changed my mind. Thank you.

Agreed