Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we did have a tour of some of the Baffin communities in the winter time with members representative of the federal government, Transport Canada. We did visit the honourable Member's community of Pangnirtung to see if we could get some partnership arrangements going with the federal government to look at some of these airports which require attention. This is one of them. Mr. Speaker, this government does not have the financial capacity at this time, to do the major relocation of the community airport in Pangnirtung. We need to make some sort of arrangement. If we could get commitments from the federal government, Transport Canada, then it would be easier to do it. However, following the visit with the officials of Transport Canada, there has been no movement at all on their part. Apparently, there were some personnel changes within that department and it seems as a result of that the process that we had agreed upon has been slowed down. I will get back to the Member on exactly where this whole process is at as soon as I can. Thank you.
Jim Antoine on Question 580-13(5): Pangnirtung Runway Relocation
In the Legislative Assembly on May 29th, 1998. See this statement in context.
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Question 580-13(5): Pangnirtung Runway Relocation
Item 6: Oral Questions
May 28th, 1998
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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