Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I would just like to pay a quick tribute to three Hay River South constituents for the heroic actions taken on board an Air Canada flight bound for Calgary on Wednesday afternoon of this week. Brian Stewart and his sons, Chad and Travis, were returning from a trip to Frankfurt, Germany. During their flight, about one hour out of Calgary, a man aboard the aircraft lost his senses and began to attack another passenger, striking the other passenger in the face and holding his hands around the other passenger's neck, screaming and yelling.

Apparently, when a person snaps like this, they can have incredible strength, and it took eight passengers and flight crew to subdue this man. But Brian, Chad and Travis Stewart led the group of passengers who apprehended the attacker. They struggled in the area of the seat and the aisle, using seatbelts to constrain him.

Mr. Speaker, this is the type of incident that many people fear will happen in flight, and there is a subtle feeling that something could go wrong, some kind of disturbance and the situation could get out of control, especially in light of what happened on September 11th.

Mr. Speaker, thanks to Brian, Chad and Travis Stewart and the other people like them that are willing to risk their personal safety to protect those around them, even strangers on the airplane, this flight terminated in Calgary safely.

I would like today to just honour their bravery and their courage for rising to defend someone in need of help and join Hay River residents in congratulating these three men for their heroic actions, and also, Mr. Speaker, I know that their grandfather, the Honourable Don Stewart, former Speaker and Member of this House, would have been very proud of their actions and that is just the kind of people that the Stewarts are. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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