Okay. I guess as long as we're obviously still providing photographs for licences, people will quickly come to realize when they stop now at the Laing Building that they can't get passport photos there and that will be that.
There's one other issue I wanted to ask the Minister to provide some public statement on, and that is the possibility of a new governance model for the airport operations. Coming on the heels of the airport authority workshop which was just held in Yellowknife, I have had a couple of constituents contact me with some concerns and I've been in touch with the Minister back and forth with a couple of letters about this issue. I guess the crux of the concerns really are about uncertainty as to what would happen should a new governance model be adopted, and what would happen to people who are employed out at the airport? Would they keep their jobs? Would they keep their pay levels? Would they keep their benefits?
I know in writing to the Minister to ask him for some clarification on this and ask him to send some sort of message to the people who are working out there and who may have significant investment in this community, bought homes and these kinds of things, he's indicated really he didn't want to put the cart before the horse because he has a panel looking at new governance models, we're not sure what's going to happen, they'll look at the pros and cons. I do have some concerns about the potential new governance model where it relates to the potential for costs being offloaded on the local taxpayers.
But that aside, I would like the Minister to make a public statement about his willingness to ensure that there is an effective employee communication plan in place, and certainly that in these negotiations and discussions about new governance models that one of the principles be that we ensure the interests of the employees at the airport is safeguarded during any sort of transition. I think that a lot of these folks who work out at the airport, there still are some who were with the airport when it was devolved from the federal government to the territorial government, and I think they're still fairly upset by some of what transpired around that process and the fact that they were shortchanged as far as benefits and pensions and some of these kinds of things are concerned, and certainly don't want to see it happen again.
So I'd like some sort of commitment from the Minister that we're going to involve all the staff in this process, and make sure that these people who made a commitment to this government and to this city are not going to be shortchanged, they're not going to be ignored and are not going to have something sprung on them at the last minute. Thank you.