Thank you, Madam Chair. You know, economic recovery starts at home, okay. It wasn't an economic opportunity for a small airline to get some help in the fourth phase and now in the fifth phase. Economic recovery is for those people who live and reside in the Northwest Territories.
We are constantly - constantly doing the wrong thing when it comes to these kind of initiatives where we're always making sure that the southern interest is always looked after. And, you know, that's not okay.
When you have people in a community, like Fort Smith, with over 50 employees still there, all living and working there, spending their money there, going to the grocery store and all these other things, and our government and this Minister decides that the criteria -- they don't look out of the box with the criteria. They have a set thing to make sure that they look after the bigger air carriers, and they -- and the ownership is not here.
That is unbelievable, unacceptable, and I'm not really happy about that. And I hope that when the amounts come out after we're done this session like usual, that they take into account the regional airlines that actually serve the North and the people that are living here. Thank you, Madam Chair.