Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m going to support my colleague from the Sahtu in

his efforts here to bring forward this motion. I think that this speaks to the issue of the cost of living in the small communities and, yes, different aircraft can get into these communities on the existing runways; however, when you look at the unit price per weight, it can be much more cost effective to be brought into these communities in DC-3s and DC-4s and planes that have a bigger payload. The ultimate price for the people who are receiving the goods is then lower. We talk a lot about trying to offset the cost of living in the small communities and I think this is one way that we could do it.

The federal legislation changed. That’s not our fault. We can’t help that; however, in order for goods to be delivered into these communities on an economic basis, I believe that this is infrastructure which is badly needed and would be good. Although there’s a lot of competition for capital dollars, I think this would be a real show on the part of this government in their true concern for the cost of living in our small communities. Thank you.