Thank you, Mr. Chair. Is my microphone working? Can you hear?

First of all, we have to take this into context because, if we go down this road, this is going to cost the territorial government a significant amount of money. We have a limited amount of capital within the ITI budget to do this across a territory-wide initiative. One of the things I think that we'd have to even consider before we end up doing this -- and we are doing some stuff in the North Slave, around the winter Aurora there, keeping our parking lots open and washroom facilities and such, and that's costing us some extra money.

When you start looking at a territory-wide initiative to do this, we're talking like probably millions of dollars to be able to transition to keeping these things open in the wintertime. These buildings aren't made to winter specification. They're made for seasonal operations but also for value for money. Some of these parks are not going to have any types of visitors, next to nothing probably, in some of them, depending on where they're located. This would be an initiative that would have to have a very serious look at to even consider doing this.

I didn't say we were going to keep them open longer than Hay River region, but I wanted to have a feeling of what it would cost to keep these things open for a couple of weeks, maybe. That's why I asked the Member from Hay River North what kind of a time frame is he talking. Are we talking a couple of weeks here, or are we talking about three or four months? There's a big difference in this type of initiative and the cost that would be associated with it. Thank you, Mr. Chair.