I am going to make it brief, but one thing I just talked to deputy what I want to do when we come in front of committee next week, I am going to find out exactly how many litres of fuel we delivered to the Arctic communities, and I am going to get a quote of how much it is to truck it to Inuvik to give committee a fair comparison on what it would cost. I think they are going to be pretty shocked.

For my closing comments, I thank all committee members for their questions. I think it is good that we have a public forum here to get this information out to the public. I need to reassure the public, when they are listening to this, that the Government of the Northwest Territories has taken the unprecedented step of buying MTS to protect the people of the Northwest Territories around delivery of fuel and goods to the communities, particularly the High Arctic. We took the unprecedented step to do that. I believe it was the right step to do, and I believe Cabinet does, and I believe most Members do.

We are operating in a very challenging environment. Some people want to put the blame on us for the commodities and goods and fuel not getting delivered this year, and I am not going to wear that. This is an unprecedented event that happened. There is a multitude of things that took place. The department is working very hard to mitigate this. We are taking the unprecedented step of flying in these things to these people so that they can get on with their lives in a cost-effective way, and I don't think you would have seen that if the private sector would have purchased this asset.

I thank committee for their questions today, and I look forward to the briefing next week. Thank you, Mr. Chair.