Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the issue of an airport authority was discussed and a steering committee was actually formed during the life of the 14th Assembly. Since then, the interest has moved away from this concept as there is a lot of investment that is required in the airport here in Yellowknife. It is a territorial airport and it has huge capital needs. We have to be able to address a number of things. Polar flights is an issue that we have raised from the stand point that the federal government has to deal with some of the issues around the concept of polar flights. This airport is not equipped to accommodate the large size airplanes that are used in the polar flights. However, in some cases, we have been forced to accommodate them during emergency landings. We are not planning, at this point, to do any expansion of our runway. We don't have it in our capital plan. That would have to be some place down the road. But we have looked at it and we are looking at how we can accommodate it as part of all the other capital needs that this airport requires. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Michael McLeod on Question 481-15(4): Airport Authority
In the Legislative Assembly on February 28th, 2006. See this statement in context.
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Question 481-15(4): Airport Authority
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 27th, 2006
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