Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Madam Chair. Just in regard to what my mayor brings forward, we're resource-rich and cash-poor. That's where we are now in my home community of Tuktoyaktuk. I'm a former Speaker of the Northwest Territories and a former MLA. For the last thr

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Also.... Sorry, Mr. Mayor. Larry, their office is in Inuvik, which as you know is 148 kilometres upriver. It's no closer to the ocean. When they come into Tuk, they tow their boat from Inuvik to do some of their exercises. They can't even come down the river to navigate the mout

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. But when they drive, they have to drive their boat from Inuvik to Tuk on a trailer—offload in Tuk and go out of Tuk.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There has been no consultation.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. In regard to what the mayor is saying, there has been no help whatsoever since this moratorium. We have the road built now. There's no funding for a restaurant to buy coffee and no hotels in Tuk. It's all B & Bs. We've had over 5,000 visitors. When I was driving o

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I know the—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In regard to the shipping, for four litres of milk in Sachs Harbour, say, you're probably paying about $24. In Inuvik, it's about $13. If you start flying it in now, supposedly no cost is going to get passed on to the customer; it's going to go to the territorial government. Th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Last year, we had 23 sailboats come into Tuk harbour.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Some of them were coming all the way from the Bahamas and passing through. On the Coast Guard aspect of it, they are starting a Coast Guard auxiliary, but we're not there yet. They're just getting their boats started and stuff like that. All power to them, and I wish them all th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just open it back up.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Listen to the shareholders and to the land claim groups, instead of the way things rolled out. It's not right.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The territory is short 2,300 houses.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, thank you, Mr. Rusnak. When Royal Dutch Shell pulled out of the Arctic on our side—on our Beaufort—they pulled out the Kulluk, the drilling platform that was supposed to drill in the Chukchi Sea. That was the only impact we had, from 2007. For four years, from 2004 to 2007

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.