Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We take it as a great loss in our community to not have the Greyhound bus pull into town everyday about 4:30. I note that this is as a result of deregulation that took place, that no longer requires Greyhound to operate in less lucrative markets, and as Greyhound themselves said, maybe some smaller carriers would move into these markets. I’m sure that the entrepreneurial and innovative-thinking people of Hay River will perhaps see this as an opportunity and move into this, but it will take time. There is also a loss of not having the affiliation of Greyhound to take advantage of those passes. There is a Discovery Pass that you can buy that will allow you to go anywhere in Canada within a certain amount of days for about $199, which is great because Hay River was the end of the Greyhound. One little thing that we had that Yellowknife didn’t have. You could go to Hay River, you could cross over the NWT border and come into Hay River on a Greyhound bus pass.

Mr. Speaker, I’d like to ask the Minister of Transportation what role did this government play in the discussions about the removal of the discontinuance of the Greyhound service into the Northwest Territories. The passenger service will now end in Edmonton. Thank you.