Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It might be cheaper than flying fuel in, though.

Mr. Chairman, it is very difficult to sit here without any information at all. We don't have any information. I am asking the Minister if they have looked at something. He says they don't have to look at it. He is talking about wear and tear on the road. I think that, if you drive stuff in the winter over the highway, a gravel road driven in the wintertime can handle a lot more when the road is frozen than, obviously, the Minister realizes.

What I am saying is we should look at other possibilities, because unless the department or MTS does a proper debriefing and does better planning and does better calculations on how to deliver material and fuel into those Arctic communities, we are going to have to start looking at something else. We can't have a repeat of this. The possibility of building something that may appear costly today? I mean, it appeared costly to me when the government bought NTCL. I wasn't in favour of that, but like I said, I had no say. That is a costly thing that the government was prepared to do, but in order to make sure that they don't make the same miscalculation in the future, I am saying, take a look at that. What is the cost of that? We don't know. The Minister is not going to look at it because it's too costly, but he doesn't know what the cost is, just knows that it is going to be too costly. He thinks it is going to be damaging to the road, but if the road is frozen, it may not be.

Those are the types of things I think that the government is going to have to look at and not just say, "We didn't make a mistake. We're not listening to anyone. We are going to fly in what we can, and everything is going to be fine in the future." I think we should start to make sure that the government is looking at what they have done this year to make sure that doesn't happen again in the future. Thank you, Mr. Chair.