Thank you, Mr. Chair. Certainly, I think the territorial fire centre is a key piece in our ability to respond in a timely manner and an effective manner. It will be a facility that allows for our territorial -- I lost my train of thought there, sorry.

It allows for our territorial leadership, so our territorial duty officer and support staff, to have a facility that has all of the necessary tools to support the regional operations. It allows our team that is looking after equipment, warehousing, resupply, communications, detection, to have a facility that's all in one that allows for the work as well as the storage for all the related equipment and parts to be located out of one facility. It allows the management team and the team that does the significant amount of work to work within one location. Also within this plan it allows the capacity for the department to ramp up operations in the summertime. The amount of staff that's in the operation during the winter time is significantly different than the requirement during a fire season and which -- and that requirement has certainly been growing year to year as we have much more fire activity which requires more summer staff, more seasonal staff, and the new facility will have the capacity to support that. Currently, in the facility that we're in, there's not adequate office space, there's not adequate infrastructure to support a much larger contingent of people. So I think it's certainly something that will definitely enhance the ability to be responsive.

The proposed location is at the airport which will be closer to other infrastructure that supports the fire program in the air attack program, and part of the plan is also to move -- the heli bases in Fort Smith and Hay River are currently right next to residential areas, so part of this overarching plan is to also move those bases out to the airport. It increases public safety because of the flight paths do currently interact to a certain extent with the communities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.