Mr. Speaker, as I indicated in my Minister’s statement, we are doing a review over winter. It clearly came to a harsh reality here this summer when we were up fighting fires outside of Inuvik and there was no aviation gas and our fleet was grounded until we got some other planes from the South. We are going to work over winter on the aviation gas piece.
We are, as well, hard at work with some options in terms of what we do to replace the 215’s. Can we afford to spend $120 million of the capital money to retrofit and turbinize old planes to make them flight worthy so we can, in fact, get fuel? Right now the planes are so old we can’t even export them for use in other jurisdictions. They refuse to accept them.
It is a challenge. It is a huge amount of money. We have to look at lease versus purchase. There are other planes out there and new technology that we are looking at as well. By next spring we are going to be ready with a plan to get us through the next few years with the aviation gas issue as we come to grips with the longer term infrastructure decision on what we do to replace the 215’s. Thank you.