Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister responsible for Transportation. We are having awfully mild weather this fall. The Mackenzie River at the Arctic Red Ferry crossing does not have any water to date, and the same with the Peel River.

I would like to ask the Minister, can the department extend the season for as long as we can to ensure that any trucks or loads that are coming from the south are able to get through to Inuvik, knowing that we are probably having a later fall than usual? Can the Minister let me know if it is possible to extend the season this year for those ferry crossings?