Mr. Chairman, I certainly agree with the Member’s comments. That was our intention. We did in fact negotiate, as I indicated yesterday, very aggressively to have the federal government pick up the costs. We had initially brought forward the scoping and project costs and insisted that the government look at covering all the expenditures required. However, we were unsuccessful. There was displacement of aircraft parking on the air side, there was space used up in the terminal building that the federal government would not cover. Having looked at this, we had the option of going and taking only...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the airport plan is in its final phase of coming towards completion. Be expected to have a completed document for review right shortly. We are planning to still do a number of things: to consult with the city, for example, and also other carriers and stakeholders of intentions. We still will be moving forward. It was our intention to look at relocating the facility to the west side of the airport. That initiative would cost $50 million. It was part of our long-term plan. It is not something that we can realistically expect to do in this case. We looked...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I will certainly take that concern and raise it with the federal government. However, I have to repeat again, CATSA does not share their security implementation plans with us as to what they're going to do with other airports. Right now the focus is on Yellowknife, as far as we know in terms of what they're going to implement for security. As traffic volumes are increased in other communities, certainly I'm sure there would be consideration. Screening devices are based on traffic volumes, so if traffic volumes are on a rise as a result of polar flights or...

Madam Chair, I don’t know if I’m in a position to qualify whether the federal requirements make sense or not. At this point I’m obligated to follow through and implement this whole explosion detection system by the deadline. We have raised this issue regarding our additional funding requirements to the federal government. We have talked to the CATSA officials over a number of months from the time this funding application was submitted in December right until this spring when it was final, and all indicators showed that the government was not going to budge on allowing us any more money to...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as far as we know, Yellowknife is the only place that is being required to install these facilities. Thank you.

Mr. Chair, as of the January deadline that was imposed on us, there will be five levels of explosive detective systems in place at 87 different airports across Canada. Yellowknife has been rated at the highest level. Because of its high volume of passengers and check baggage traffic, our traffic volumes are a lot higher than Whitehorse, as well as Iqaluit. Consequently, we are rated at the highest level for EDS/HBS deployment. The equipment is going to be operated and supplied by CATSA. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, this afternoon, I would like to announce to the House that I have proclaimed today, Tuesday, October 26, 2004, as National Students Against Impaired Driving Day.

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This will be the sixth annual National Students Against Impaired Driving Day in which student organizations at more than 400 schools from every province and territory will participate. This national day of action aims to raise awareness of, and to prevent, impaired driving. In making this proclamation, the Government of the Northwest Territories conveys its support for community-minded youth groups that want...

Madam Chair, if the planes are coming from a southern destination, then they would have a security check there. However, there may be a concern, as the Member raises, as to the flights going from the North to the South. At this point I don't have an answer for that.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, as directed by Cabinet, the department is currently working on a decision paper for cost recovery. We’re targeting the end of November to bring that forward. The number that we’re targeting to recover is $6.6 million, as the Minister indicated, over 10 years. At the present time there are already fees, as has been indicated. However, these two fees that are being collected now, the terminal fees and the landing fees, are well below the rates in southern Canada. Those are the areas we’re looking at with the possibility of airport improvement fees. So we have...

Mr. Chairman, I don't have the proof that the Member is asking for in terms of documents, so I would have to commit to providing that at a later time.