Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would also like to thank the witnesses for their presentations.
I will unfortunately not have the time to address a question to each and every one, but I appreciated their presentations nonetheless. I also appreciated your claims to self-governance as well as your desire for greater control over your territory's finances and its programs intended for linguistic minorities.
My question deals with mines. On the issue of infrastructure, there is a chart that surprised me quite a bit, the one that shows the lives of mines here in Nunavut. I am trying to square the massive infrastructure investment required for these major projects with the fact that, for the most part, they are rather temporary and span a fairly short period.
A bit earlier, officials from the Government of the Northwest Territories spoke of a project that was meant to transport electricity to a mine, only that mine had all but run dry by the time everything had been approved. I would like to know what the best solution would be to an issue such as this. These projects are time-limited and yet require costly public infrastructure projects to be carried out.