Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in regard to NAV Canada's introduction of new air navigation fees, which they first announced last summer, I believe, we, as the Department of Transportation started communicating with all the stakeholders in the north and tried to keep yourselves, the honourable Members of the Legislative Assembly informed. We talked to the air carriers that are operating in the Northwest Territories as well as the federal government, the Minister of Transportation, the Honourable David Collenette, and we raised our concerns that any changes that were anticipated by NAV Canada are going to have a big effect on all of us because they are talking about increasing the rates quite substantially. The initial response by NAV Canada is that it is an overall Canada-wide change that they are implementing throughout the whole country, and we in the Northwest Territories make up a small percentage of the total percentage of the whole country. They have indicated that they overlooked us when they were making their original plan. The position that we have taken is they should have consulted with us a lot more and taken into consideration the northern realities of high costs already. They have not done that. So, there are two phases to their new plan.

First, is that they are going to introduce it April 1st of this year for the larger aircraft, then starting in the fall, on November 1st,

will be the second part of their plan. In the meantime we have been consulting with them quite a bit. In December their president of NAV Canada, Mr. Crichton, was in the north and myself and some of the MLAs had an opportunity to meet with him and express our concerns on the increases in the fee structure. As a result, he is committed to consult with us and work with us closely. However, the decision has already been made and the changes to the air navigation fees have already been signed off by the federal Minister, the Honourable David Collenette, and this new fee structure changes will be instituted in the next three months or so. In the meantime they are also going to be reducing their air transportation tax which is currently applied to air transportation in the north and that will maybe offset the increases in the air navigation fees a bit. There is going to be some increase in the north. Thank you.