Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As usual, I’ll be very brief. A position like airport manager in a community the size of Tuktoyaktuk is a very important one. If there is the work there to be done, the position to manage that work should be in Tuktoyaktuk. To move the responsibility for the airport in Tuk to Inuvik is a clear case of centralizing and moving things from small communities to larger communities. For that reason alone….
This is not a make-work project. Mr. Jacobson is absolutely right. The airport is going to get nothing but busier in the next while with the economic activity we anticipate, and this is a backwards move. I think it is regressive. We need to think
forward and keep the airport manager’s position in Tuktoyaktuk as a resident.