I do apologize if I’ve made a suggestion that it hasn’t been done. I will wait for the evidence to see. I was there about a month ago and I didn’t see anything. I stand to be corrected. I just want to make sure we have a facility for the elders and that it’s done. I will be happy. I will be happy if this is a reality in the Norman Wells Airport.

I want to say to the Minister and staff that people in my region, specifically Colville Lake, are very happy about the airport relocation. They’ve done some good work there. It worked really good this department with the cooperation of the Colville Lake First Nation people to work on the airport relocation, working together to get this done. I want to say thank you to the Minister and staff, and also to his staff for doing good work in Tulita and Deline on the airport runway extensions. It’s been a real trying time on these projects and we’re hoping that the Tulita Airport will be done for the gravel haul this year. These are some of the issues that we’re working on. I do want to say that to the department here. We look forward to working on some of the issues on the airport here.

I’m really happy because Colville Lake is finally going to get a terminal. Sometimes I wonder, when we land an airplane in Colville Lake and there’s no terminal. In other places you go there’s always terminal buildings there. I just couldn’t understand

how come we didn’t have a terminal at that small airport. Last time there was a terminal there, and certainly I know that the chief talked about the terminal being vandalized so they had to take it down. The chief again made another suggestion to not penalize my people that way. There are always ways to look at things.

However, I am happy that things are improving and we’re starting to see good things happening with regard to our infrastructure. For too long we haven’t seen much infrastructure like this. I’m glad that I’m here to witness it.