Thank you, Madam Chair. Just to go back to the first line of questioning that I did, where I talked about the hamlet spending a lot of money. The Minister did reply that they were in a deficit for $400,000 and they were built up. It was just the right thing to do, because it was because of this department and DPW that they were in debt. MACA forced DPW on them. In the prior years to their takeover, MACA forced DPW on them. So it accumulated debt because of overcharging from DPW, and that was the reason. The other thing, using the old formula they were under funded. They're still under funded. Maybe this is the time to look at how they're funded. We have two communities here. Right now you overlooked Edzo when you did the chipseal. How many times in the past have you overlooked Edzo? You know nobody can tell us that, but maybe you've done that in the past. Maybe Edzo is not even being funded for and Rae is carrying Edzo. Maybe it's time we looked at it. We're being thrown in the same category as Rankin Inlet at one time, and that's the formula how we were based, by population. The separation of the two communities never came into effect, they never even considered it. Then when the Minister said where the takeover was a failure, of course it had to be a failure. There was agreement by Public Works that they would bring people in to train the staff that were there. It never happened. It was part of the agreement. They failed on their agreement. MACA and DPW failed on their agreement. They were supposed to give them extra dollars for training for the staff out there. They never did that, they failed. This government failed Rae-Edzo great big time. Underfunding, forcing DPW on them, and not giving them the dollars for the training, and that was a service agreement they failed on.
That's where the Transportation responsibility has said that the winter road is a responsibility of Transportation, well then maybe everybody should keep their own responsibilities to themselves. Sorry, Madam Chair.
The department has no right building airstrips in communities, because it's not their responsibility. It's the responsibility of the Minister of Transportation, and they're still continuing to build airstrips. So if it's good for one, then it should be good for another. Now they can't just pick and choose who they feel like building airstrips for or winter roads. If you're going to do for one you do it for the other. You know, it has to be done. So I'd just like to get that clear, and I know we are running out of time and I want him to give me a good answer that's something that we can use. Thank you.
