Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don't know how many people are going to have opening comments, so we may be repeating ourselves when I respond to each individual Member, but I've taken some quick notes on the Member's comments.
Right off the bat I want to comment on the ATAC fees. We have had a number of questions in the House surrounding that issue. This is something that is done through ATAC; it's a national thing. As I said in the House, we are paying close attention to them negotiating these fees going forward.
There has been a concern, I guess, in the paper or in the press about the amount of money collected by certain carriers. The one thing that I can tell Members is, if they were able to negotiate that price to a lower fee within the airport improvement fee, that will mean more money for capital for our airport, so that's actually a good thing. In a certain way, I think it's kind of timely that that report has come out and in the best case scenario they will end up having a lower fee on that and there will be more money for capital for our airport.
The Economic Advisory Committee, this is an advisory board. This is a first step on moving forward. I know our committee has supported more of an airport authority when they originally looked at this, and so have some other people who we have consulted with, but as I've said many times in the House, this is our first step in looking on how we wanted to roll this all out, and we feel that the Economic Advisory Committee is the proper way to do it. We believe we are going to get a wide range of participants, from Aboriginal governments to tourism businesses to business people in the surrounding area, that will help advise the government on what are the best practices and what our capital investments should be moving forward with the Yellowknife Airport.
The Member also said that we don't have a business plan moving forward. This has already been posted on what capital investments that we want to look at investing in the Yellowknife Airport, and that's already posted in our business plan on our website.
Cost of living. We've already put out that it's going to be .08 per cent cost of living to the Yellowknife residents in the Northwest Territories. The other thing that always sticks in my head is over half the people who are travelling through the Yellowknife Airport -- over half a million passengers -- over 50 per cent of them are non-residents of the Northwest Territories. So these fees are going to be spread out over a wide variety of people, and we believe that this plan of Bill 7 moving forward is the best thing for the Yellowknife Airport. Thank you, Mr. Chair.