Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm proud to stand here today and support this motion, support the seconder, my colleague from the Sahtu, and to support the people from -- the residents of the town of Norman Wells. This is, indeed, a crisis. We look at $40 a gigajoule of gas in Inuvik and I think that's a crisis. I can only imagine, to pay $6,000 to fill the fuel tank. It's going to be a crisis. It's a crisis now as temperatures get lower.

Mr. Speaker, the -- I mean, the precedent of -- if you want to call it bailing out a community or bailing someone out, we've done this in the past. We've spent an additional $30 million to build a windmill in Inuvik that's reducing greenhouse gas emissions yet not really providing any relief to the power grid up there for the residents. We provide -- we subsidize power every year, you know, in our communities. When the barge didn't get into Sachs Harbour, Mr. Speaker, a couple of years ago, we -- the NWT stepped up and we flew all the materials in there, including building materials going in there to build homes for local construction companies that had to go in there that didn't make the barge. So stepping up and doing something about this emergency now, I think, you know, we have no choice. Would it be great to get that -- to be able to get that funding from the federal government? Of course it would. But, again, we can't wait as my colleague from Norman Wells, from the Sahtu, has said. We need to act on this now. Whether that means, you know -- and I've talked about with our -- with my colleagues about how we could do this. I don't think by doing rebates to individuals or businesses. I think the administrative burden on that would be too much. We'd likely spend a million dollars there alone just doing that. I think, you know, the simplest way to do this thing is to reach out to Imperial Oil who is the provider in there. I don't know, I mean they typically barge their product in. Could they have trucked it on the winter road this time? Likely. We knew that the barge wasn't going to get in because we own the barging company. You know, I don't know what information Imperial Oil had. I know they've been a good corporate citizen in Norman Wells for many years. In my opinion we look at the cost, we find out from the provider what the additional cost was to get that fuel in there, we look at that number, we cut that cheque, and we ensure that the residents are paying the same as they always paid for the heating fuel and gasoline in the community. It's simple. We had an issue last week where Canadian North couldn't land in Yellowknife, went to -- couldn't land in Norman Wells because there was no fuel, ended up having to -- I think they ended up in Fort Smith at that time. So, again, to me we have to come up with a solution. It's not something we can delay. It's not something we can say let's reach out to Ottawa and see if we can get funding for, Mr. Speaker. It's something we need to do now. And I'm happy to support this motion. I'm hoping that as a government we step up, we look at precedents, we look at money we've spent previously on similar situations, and we get it done and make sure that when the minus 30 hits in about a month here, that people are not paying that much money to heat their homes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.