Wally Schumann

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Member is kind of all over the place there. First of all, we need to pursue some of this private work. If we don't pursue some of this private work that's out there, the cost with running this operation would be enormous. I don't think the Member would like to see $5 a litre in the communities because, if all of a sudden, you shrink your market to where it's half the size of what you have and you continue to have a fixed cost to run this operation, the costs are going to be horrendous.

We are operating this asset exactly the way and pursuing revenues just like the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I have said earlier in my questioning, I said we were going to do a regional contingency plan on the Department of Infrastructure to help mitigate these extreme events, and that is where we would probably have a look at this. That is why we are having a look at the Beaufort region, and I have committed that we are going to do that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following documents entitled "Northwest Territories Environmental Studies Research Fund - Annual Report and Budget 2017-2018" and, pursuant to Section 98 of the Petroleum Resource Act, "NWT Oil and Gas Annual Report 2017." Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We can certainly commit to developing a longer-term five-year business plan and having those discussions, and I will be able to update committee once we have that work done. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am going to need him to repeat his question.

I will have to check with the department to see exactly how we could do that, and I can certainly get back to the Member.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Off the top of my head, no, but we would have to do a jurisdictional look to see if there was something out there similar. The only thing that comes to mind to me is some of the MTS tables is Newfoundland and their ferry system, but that's not doing cargo or stuff. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, we can do that as well. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. When Infrastructure was putting forward our requests for federal dollars for the bilaterals we signed, along with all of the other sources of funding that we are trying to secure, the first thing we did is we checked the mandate. That is the first thing we have done. We checked the mandate and identified the priorities that were within the mandate. We have looked at the 20-year capital-needs assessment and the annual capital-planning process.

That is the process, we have done that, and then, when we do that, we also have to look at the alignment of objectives and...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Comments are noted.