Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I am really glad that Minister Dent just gave that little litany that he did about how we have to be concerned about terrorism and how we have to do what the federal government tells us to do with respect to protecting our airports and traveling public against terrorist threats. Mr. Chair, I would like to know that the Minister conveyed this to the federal government. I think this entire suggestion of X-ray equipment for explosives at the Yellowknife Airport is the most ludicrous thing I have ever heard of in my life. Maybe in southern Canada, other small airports feeding to a main airport, where you have the sophisticated and very expensive equipment, but it is a very different situation when you are going north and south. This is like the gun registry. This is a boondoggle. This is a federal government imposed farce because there is a 737 jet that takes off from Inuvik with no security. There is a 737 jet takes off from Hay River en route to Edmonton International Airport with no security. So to put an X-ray machine to see if there are explosives getting on an aircraft in Yellowknife would hardly address the threat of terrorism in the Northwest Territories or any imposition of a threat on the traveling public in the Northwest Territories.
Why doesn't somebody just call this for what it is? This is ridiculous. It is the federal government imposing on our government a multi-million dollar expenditure for something we don't need and it is not going to help. In fact, if somebody actually wanted to do something, they wouldn't get on the plane in Yellowknife. They would get on a plane someplace else with a direct connection to an international airport in the South. Why doesn't somebody call this for what it is? This is ridiculous. I hope somebody conveyed that to the federal government. If not, it is now on the record. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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