Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is to Mr. Todd, the Minister of FMBS. I spoke today about frequent flyer points, and many provincial governments, as well as the Yukon and federal governments have directed us, stating that government employees are not to receive any frequent flyer points as a result of travel on government business. Other jurisdictions have developed methods of pooling points accumulated by employees, and then using those points for other government travel.

For example, the province of Saskatchewan, uses a system which allows points to be accumulated by employees within the department which can be transferred to other departments. It is estimated that we are using frequent flyer points representing a possible savings of between five and ten percent of air travel. My question to the Minister is; would the Minister consider adopting similar methods for pooling frequent flyer points for use in other government travel? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.