Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have already been receiving anxious calls about these issues from my constituents. There are lots of concerns right now about

how these changes will affect their take-home pay, after taxes. I would like to ask the Minister if these examples could be given to us by the end of Monday, March 25th. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to ask the Minister if he could make that analysis available to this House as soon as possible. The analysis will look at the situation of employees with small, medium and large families in each of the different community groups which have been set up under the collective agreement for the settlement allowance. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Finance. Since the Minister's major announcement yesterday, my constituents have been calling me. We're trying hard to figure out the actual effects of the cuts to wages and benefits which were announced. They're not sure how changes will affect how much more income tax they will have to pay. I would like to ask the Minister if he and his officials have done an analysis to figure out how these changes would affect the larger as well as the smaller families, the gross and net income of typical employees in the various regions of the Northwest Territories. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the federal Minister of Transport exercise his powers under Bill C-20, to veto any planned closures of northern flight service stations including the flight service station in Resolute Bay? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Earlier this morning, I discussed my concern about the future of flight service stations after the sale of Transport Canada's flight service stations to NavCan. My question is to the Minister of Transportation. Does the Minister of Transportation agree that the flight service stations in the Resolute Bay airport and other NWT airports are important to the service for northern and polar air transportation? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Later today, I will be asking the Minister if he is willing to support these goals. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My statement concerns the airport at Resolute Bay. I understand that the Government of Canada, which controls flight service stations in Resolute Bay and other locations in the NWT, has plans to sell these operations to a new non-profit corporation controlled by a major Canadian Airlines, air traffic controllers and business-jet owners. This is all planned for June 1996. This sale will be done through Bill C-20, now before the House of Commons.

Mr. Speaker, the Resolute Bay flight service station has a staff of six, including a manager. This facility provides vital services to aircraft in the High Arctic, especially at the airport in Resolute Bay, which is an important route and alternate for northern and circumpolar flights. I am concerned about the future of the Resolute Bay flight service station and others in the NWT as this privatization plan moves forward.

Mr. Speaker, I understand that Bill C-20 gives the Minister of Transport Canada an effective veto over the elimination of air traffic control services in remote and northern communities and that the government has said it intends to put in place a special process to review any planned service cuts in those regions.

Mr. Speaker, I will be urging our Minister of Transportation, the Honourable Jim Antoine, to inform the federal Minister of how important these flight service stations are for northern and circumpolar flights and urge him to continue these

services in the North. If cutbacks must be considered, Mr. Speaker, I would hope that our Minister can persuade the federal Minister to ensure that at least community air radio stations are established for at least the same hours of service provided previously by the flight service stations. Mr. Speaker, I ask for unanimous consent to conclude my statement.

(Translation) Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, I would like to recognize the week that we have to speak our language and recognize our native language. I have no real concerns on the changes in the compensation package for the MLAs, nor on the pension plan. I have one concern. Regarding the constituency allowance, mine was lowered by $8,000. 1 realize when I was campaigning, people in my constituency said that we don't visit them often enough and we don't make them aware of what is happening to the work that we are doing. That is the only concern I wanted to express, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to table Tabled Document 6-13(3), a letter written by Berry Tibbitt on March 20, 1996. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.