Thank you, Madam Chair. I am a bit torn on this one. The process was raised and the questions were raised as we first reviewed the supplementary and concerns about how this project came into being, and the Minister responded to questions put to him with a letter, and it's been referenced. The intention initially was relocation because of a potential road and the Minister stated here, again for the record, that it was a request of the community. When the Minister of Finance spoke to it, he also spoke to the request. In here, it talks about emergency repairs. As well, I am familiar with Tuktoyaktuk and I know it's been a problem they've had to deal with. I must agree with my colleague from Tu Nedhe that instead of putting small amounts there, we need to deal with it as best we can.

At the same time, I have reservations, as a couple of other Members have put it, about the planning process and how things fall into place. I understand that in one part of this supplementary it's going back into the coffers so to speak, and then being asked for at another point, and I guess we should say that at least they didn't come in with a special warrant here as we have seen some other things just pop in here without time lines. So they've at least followed that process and heard some concerns from committees.

I guess the big thing is the community has made a request, substantiated it with the erosion problem that seems to have picked up in the last year. I guess they're waiting to hear if the government has accepted that it is an emergency and needs to be done. The letter from the Minister didn't state the emergency and we've been hearing so far on speaking to this motion, we haven't heard of the emergency situation. Knowing and being familiar with it, it is a situation that needs to be dealt with. I guess I would urge the government to start putting some long-term plans together as to what might actually happen. Is there a possibility that we can hold the ocean back and try to keep something going or, as Mr., Nitah, said, maybe look at some engineering to come up with something that might build up the land, and there are examples of that throughout the world? I am not suggesting the Minister and his staff start travelling to these other places to get that. I am sure that information can be easily had through the systems we have in place now. So hopefully we won't see something in the near future where there is a requirement for more funding to take some community members and staff to Holland or Japan or some place like that.

To be more realistic, initially my concern is on the planning, how it unfolded, being unclear as to whether it was a request or an emergency. I was initially leaning towards the motion and supporting it, but knowing the situation of that community and knowing it has come back to us and it is a request from us at this point, I am tending to go with not supporting the motion at this time because even if we say no to it or if we take the money away, there is going to have to be substantial money found to either relocate the community further inland or something like that, which is going to cost more than a few hundred thousand dollars. There is a commitment being made now that the community will not be able to get the $100,000 a year that was committed to them, so based on those commitments made here in the House, then I cannot support the motion and I would suggest that we follow up in a proper way from this point on.

I think it should be noted that this has been an ongoing problem. Even in the letter it states the federal government was involved as far back as 1971. So Members have stated that we are throwing rocks in the ocean or rubber bags in the ocean. Well, there were a few trial-and-errors and hopefully it's getting to the point where it's going to work and the rock will stay put and build up some of the shore around it.

There are a few communities around the NWT close to river systems and large water bodies that have been helped by some of these actions that have been taken. Based on that, although a part of me says I want to follow more closely the capital planning process which committee members have highlighted time and time again, at the same time I understand the urgency here and not wanting to cut our nose off to spite our face, sort of thing. Hopefully they will move forward in a respectful manner from this point on. Thank you, Madam Chair.