Wally Schumann

Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, I want to make it quite clear, this is raising the cost of living by less than a tenth of 1 per cent, so it's very minimal. If I thought this was something that was going to raise the cost of living by 10 or 15 per cent in the Northwest Territories, this bill wouldn't be in front of the House.

Through the Member's comments that he just made around the Yellowknife Airport, the one thing I want to -- I agree with a number of things that he said in comments, some of them were very valid, but one of the things doing this revolving fund Bill 7 moving forward is it...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, as I said, we never did that analysis. AIF is lower for the outlying communities, and the price of tickets are higher. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We will wait.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will pass that on to the deputy minister, Mr. Neudorf. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I won't get into the Economic Advisory Committee because we have already discussed that. I want to touch briefly on his comment on carbon tax and then around the government. This is a very complicated issue. He knows that. The government is having a very hard look at how we are going to implement that, or if we are going to implement it, or how we are going to implement it. There are a lot of discussions between us and Regular Members and the public on how that is moving forward, so I just want to get that out of the way because he threw it in there. It has nothing to do...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, I want to clarify, going back to the previous question first. If you're doing this flight from Simpson through to Edmonton there is no AFI, air improvement fee, but there will be a fee on that ticket for the aeronautical fees which would be in the $7 to $9 range. So that's actually going to be that one fee that will be affecting someone flying through from a community.

To the Member's question if would I support a phased-in approach, I've made it quite clear a number of times, no, we do not support a phased-in approach. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don't know how many people are going to have opening comments, so we may be repeating ourselves when I respond to each individual Member, but I've taken some quick notes on the Member's comments.

Right off the bat I want to comment on the ATAC fees. We have had a number of questions in the House surrounding that issue. This is something that is done through ATAC; it's a national thing. As I said in the House, we are paying close attention to them negotiating these fees going forward.

There has been a concern, I guess, in the paper or in the press about the amount of money...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, that's correct, our leases are considered market rate. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, I do, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, revenues and expenditures are treated separately. Thank you, Mr. Chair.