Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I certainly can understand the frustrations with the travelling public and the members of Wrigley and Fort Simpson over this issue. The ferry contract is an important one. We have a lot of travelling public that were disrupted this weekend. I, too, got a number of calls and letters where people were concerned over the service being interrupted.

However, as the Department of Transportation, we are not really players in the labour dispute. We certainly encourage the two sides to sit down together to have further discussions. There is correspondence going back and forth between the employer and the employees. We certainly encourage the federal government to provide the resources they can. This is regulated through the Canadian Labour Code and being monitored by the Canadian Industrial Review Board. Our contract is with Rowe Construction in Fort Simpson, along with their partners Nogha Enterprises. We will continue to monitor the situation, the infrastructure and the services to ensure that it continues to be safe. We will also continue to provide whatever resources we can to see this come to a conclusion. Thank you.