Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chair, the high core needs in my region, as in other regions, we have different needs and different areas of concern and I wanted to commend the Minister just on taking the risk of having some of these units be brought into my region due to the limitation of our winter roads and the extra care to bring these units into our region because of what we are faced with in my region as opposed to the regions having an all-weather road here.

Mr. Chairman, I wanted to ask the Minister, in terms of reducing the core need and hoping we get the point where we could somewhat feel comfortable in my region, is the Minister working and his staff working with my region in terms of looking at some creative solutions like you guys mentioned, in terms of bringing in these units before the winter road closes? Otherwise we have to wait for the barge and all the other things that go along with delays. I think that's good thinking. It's proper thinking. It shows leadership.

I wanted to ask the Minister in terms of working with our region on these specific areas that need to be addressed from the point of view of the Sahtu region, at least. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.