Yes. This is Alastair Campbell speaking to you now.
I'm not a specialist in infrastructure and transportation, but it is certainly the case that there are not deep-sea port facilities here. There's sealift, which is not a very efficient way of providing materials needed for construction and goods for consumers.
When the hospital was being built, for example, a girder that was essential to it fell into the water, which presumably would not have happened if there had been proper docking facilities. The result of that, given the short construction season, was that it actually threw the construction off for a year.
There's a cost associated with these lacks.... A major centre like Iqaluit can certainly justify better port facilities. In fact, port transportation and unloading facilities, as I understand it, have been developed better in northern Quebec than they have in Nunavut.
One of the other things that's been mentioned--and here the contrast would be with Labrador and Newfoundland--is small craft harbour facilities. Every community in Nunavut is maritime—that is, on the sea—except Baker Lake, which is a little way inland on the lake. But they are all otherwise adjacent to the sea. Use of marine resources is an important part of the traditional economy and also the developing economy. There's a lack of small craft harbour facilities, which, for example, would facilitate fishing and that sort of thing.
So even though there is fishing potential and there is some fishing activity being carried out in Nunavut, the facilities are not available for unloading fish stocks, for example. The boats have to go elsewhere to get fuel or elsewhere to unload the fish.