Thank you, Mr. Chair. For the record, again I state very clearly that those reductions we’ve set weren’t taken very lightly, and that we had to look across our operations into each and every region in sort of a mix and a match in terms of how we’re going to meet our reduction targets and in terms of how we’re going to maintain the level of services. What is first and foremost in our minds is the safety level of our people travelling and using our roads or airports or our marine services. This is the question. I’ve gone back to the deputies in terms of challenges and in terms of how this will affect transportation services.
Number one is to maintain the integrity of our transportation facilities — roads and airports. This arrangement here is a different type of managerial arrangement, based on the number of flights into each of our community airports. We had to look deep down and hard in terms of how we make these decisions so they would have minimal impact on employees in the communities. The managerial type of arrangement we made with this specific community, this specific airport, is that we would look at — similar to the other airports — how we move things. Then we would come back to the community and have some further discussion. This discussion, again, is proposed for ’09–10, and we would have further discussions and certainly take in the comments of the Regular Members. I know, for us, it’s been a long, drawn-out process. It’s very tiring. But we also take these reductions very seriously.
Again, we would respect the wishes of the Assembly here. We have looked at our target reduction, and we feel that would have the least impact on the services at our airport.