Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, NAV Canada had a 60-day consultation process that they have gone throughout the summer. Through the consultation process we were expressing our concern about the increases that they were planning to impose upon us in the North here on the air carriers which will in turn be reflected down into higher costs in air transportation, passengers and airfares as well as cargo. We are told by NAV Canada that they are doing away with the ATT, the tax that they put on carriers, passengers, however they will replace it with a fee. They will be doing away with this tax however, they will have an increase of $7.5 million above the taxes they used to recover. As a result of that, we realize this will be an additional financial burden to people in the north. As a result, through the consultation processes with NAV Canada we were writing letters and expressing our concerns. We also work with the other stakeholders in the north, the air carriers, different interest groups, different organizations explaining to them, briefing them what we interpret this new fee structure to be. As a result, there has been a strategy campaign to try to get to NAV Canada and their board to express upon them our concern here. We felt that going through the consultation process, they do not seem to be taking us very seriously so I was able to meet personally with the Chairman of the NAV Canada board, Mr. Louis Comeau in the early part of August and told him personally, all our concerns and expressed to him what we were seeking is that we do not want to see an increase in the cost of airfare in the north, that we would seek cost-neutral arrangements where they have all the numbers, they have done all the consultation, so it is up to them to figure out a structure that would not see any increase in the north and we left it with them. The board met and put a proposal together and presented it to federal Minister Collenette and he has 30 days from the time it is presented to him. I understand tomorrow is the last day when he will decide whether he is going to approve this proposal or not.
I also had the opportunity of talking to Minister Collenette on the telephone. I again impressed upon him the severe consequences that these new fees will have here in the north. Despite our representation to him, he has until tomorrow. We have no indication whether he is going to approve it. We expressed upon him that he should amend this proposal, so that we will not see any increases. The NAV Can proposal is to delay this whole process for a few months, about six months and another six months for another fee structure, but at the end of the day, they will still want to increase fees. This is where we are at. I am attending a Minister of Transportation meeting next week in Regina. Minister Collenette will be there and one of the agenda items is NAV Canada. It is not only we, here in the Northwest Territories, who are in the same predicament. We are also dealing with the Yukon which is in the same situation, as well as the northern provinces in the south. That is where we are at right now. Thank you.