Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to thank the Minister for visiting my constituencies over the winter. I would like to thank him for having a meeting with the hamlet councils in my constituency. I have a concern over one airport, which is in my home riding of Arctic Bay, which is supposed to be an emergency airstrip. It does not have lighting. There was a case over the winter where an ill person was supposed to leave, an emergency case, because of bad weather in Nanisivik and the Nanisivik airport not having a guiding instrument system, when there is bad weather, the planes can not make it there in most of the cases. My concern is why the Arctic Bay emergency airstrip is not lighted? There is no lighting system there. There is no ATB. Let me remind the Minister, we had to land in Nanisivik when he was visiting in Arctic Bay and we had to travel by land for 20 miles. If we were to land in Arctic Bay, we would have had to travel five minutes. That is my question. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Levi Barnabas on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 18th, 1997. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 17th, 1997
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Levi Barnabas High Arctic
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