Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Every community in the south, be it a large or small city, a town, or a village, takes it for granted that Canada is going to invest in infrastructure in their community--ports, roads, highways, or whatever. We can't take that for granted in Nunavut. Baker Lake has the only highway in all of Nunavut. It's 109 kilometres long and privately owned. We don't have ports in our communities. Our capital has been asking for support to build a deep-sea port. That hasn't happened yet. Baker Lake has a little wee dock that we built ourselves, and Agnico has been having a very hard time unloading their barges with all of their supplies.
There is no infrastructure that will lower the cost of living in Nunavut. There has been talk for many years about building a highway from Nunavut to Manitoba. Look at it this way: most of the money you invest in Nunavut will go back to your constituencies anyway through the purchase of materials and supplies, or whatever we need in Nunavut. We buy it all from your constituencies in the south.