Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I believe I understand the Member's question to mean what are the day-to-day operation costs of the ferry. It would depend, of course, on the amount of time it ran after the ice started forming. I am sure the Member is aware of that. However, the purpose of the reference to $50,000 in his letter that I signed off to him is just to show that it would be in the nature of $50,000 to use ice spray on the Mackenzie crossing at Arctic Red.

We put in the letter the indication, for instance, as in Fort Providence, that would be offset. In this particular case, it is not offset because the ferry does not keep running there. It is an outright cost to the department of $50,000 more if we wanted to ice-spray that crossing. That is the only reason we compared the two.