Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's a hit and miss thing. I heard the Minister say the ferry goes on demand, so they wait until their vehicles are all over. If it was on a scheduled crossing, then people approaching could also plan their arrival at the ferry crossing from the south side to coincide because they know the ferry is there, but it's always just a guess and quite often if you are wrong, it can make quite a significant difference to the time you are anticipating your trip to take. If you just arrived there as the ferry is taking off, it is a fairly lengthy wait there. I think the ferry service is excellent and I have even experienced on a few occasions where the ferry might have just left the shore and somebody will come and the ferry operator will come back and get you, which is very, very considerate. But they can only see so far from that wheelhouse up in the top of the ferry.
So either having it on a specific time frame, so we could plan for that or I don't think the technology would be all that expensive to send some kind of a signal that the traffic was coming. I don't think people would generally go someplace else on the south side, other than straight to the ferry. I would just like the department to consider it. I know they have a camera now at the ferry crossing that you can look at on-line. I think that's very progressive and very helpful. Certainly when it's the time in the season when the ferry runs intermittently, it's very helpful for people like ourselves who have to drive an hour-and-a-half or two hours to get to the ferry... I shouldn't say how long it takes. Let's say two hours to get to the ferry from Hay River. It does help us plan to be able to click online and I think it's probably helpful to the people of Hay River service station too because I am sure they are plagued by phone calls from people wanting to know what the status of the ferry crossing is at that time of year as well. The department has done some very innovative things and we appreciate that, but if we could count on the ferry service until such time as there is a bridge or something a little more than a hit-and-miss basis, it would be appreciated. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.