Thank you, Madam Chair. Further to my questions earlier on the cost and transferring the cost of the Yellowknife Airport expansion to consumers, I wanted to pursue this a bit more. We are looking at a 10-year picture here of financing this according to what the department has provided, about $660,000 a year coming from the people who use the aviation industry. I know the department was involved in some very intense negotiations with the CATSA folks, Canadian Air Transport Security Agency.
Madam Chair, I had heard from some folks on the private sector side of the airline industry here in Yellowknife that our department did, indeed, really go to bat and fought the good fight. I think that is worth acknowledging here. That tells me that they certainly didn't take this lightly, and they know what the impacts are going to be. But, I want to keep on pressing this, Madam Chair, as taking $6.5 million out of the business and the public's pockets is not something that I do lightly and that this Assembly should take lightly.
What other avenues can we pursue to try and find some other places to collect some of those revenues? I am quite prepared, I think, to speak on behalf of my constituents and say that we are ready to pay some for having a safe, secure and a convenient airport facility. But, we are a very small market. In fact, I think, Madam Chair, if you peel back the layers, there is quite a small number of people in businesses who use the services of that airport quite extensively. So we are really putting a lot of the cost of this on the backs of a smaller population
than we might think. Where else can we go to get even some help with this $6.6 million?