Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. Competition in what sense? Competition from Whitehorse to Old Crow? Like somebody else coming in...?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. I don't really understand, because we're the sole carrier on that route. We feel like there's not really any competitive advantages to competition coming in.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In what sense? The monetary amounts or the type of subsidies?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. We've illustrated what type of subsidies we were achieving under the old system given our cost structure, given what Canada Post was being charged on our routes, and then given what the subsidies were set at. These are our estimates. But the primary argument has to do wi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. Old Crow is a community of 400 people. The interesting situation there is that they just recently had an election and half the votes came from Whitehorse, in fact, so we're sort of concluding that there is a ration of one to one for residents of Old Crow and their relatives

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's highly unlikely. The market itself is not lucrative enough. Furthermore, I would challenge you to find a northern carrier who can say that their cost structure is comparable to southern carriers of similar size. Our cost structure is low, such that it's very hard for other c

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I have a comment as well. In the case of the Yukon, we actually feel that it will be more of a case where small retailers might catch on. We are a little suspicious that some of the larger retailers in the Yukon may be a bit disinterested in the food mail program. But in any e

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. Yes, we are the only company. Old Crow is an isolated community of 400 people, so we are the only carrier, and we don't really foresee the market being big enough for another carrier. The Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation are huge stakeholders in our fi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't think I'll need to exhaust too much time. I'm here on behalf of my father, Joseph Sparling, president of Air North. I came to deliver a report that he wrote. You will receive the report in both languages as soon as it's translated. Essentially, the report aims to do thre