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The word has come down from the top that Nav Canada will not be closing it’s station here on the islands or at Mont-Joli, Quebec.  This is good news for islanders, not only because it keeps the airport traffic watch manual, it keeps our technicians employed and here at home.  Nav Can indicated that this decision is reflected by the consultations that were taken this past autumn with its employees and the concerned population.

The speaker of the society, Nadège Adam explained that Nav Canada regularly evaluates its services. The last evaluation took place in 2003.  It is now time that the company be brought up-to-date.  The enterprise had reviewed the installations of 46 places across the country.

They had decided to keep service personal at 18 information stations, two airports of which were the Mont-Joli and the Magdalen Islands.  It is apparently evident that these information stations of regional flight are essential for the security, indicated Nav Canada, “We had judged that the level of service was perfectly appropriate at this time”, added Mrs Adam.

The reopening of the factory, Pêcheries Norpro (Norpro Fisheries) on Amherst Island still has an uncertain fate.  The project proposed to use the installations of the former factory for the storage and refrigeration of products from other factories, on the Archipelago is moving slowly.  A commercial rights lawyer must yet discuss the ideas and processes with proprietors of various fish transformation factories on the islands, within the next few weeks.

Since the fires consumed the Madelipêche and the Madelimer factories in 2007, the two enterprises have functioned without reconstructing their buildings, but they both have serious needs for storage and refrigeration.  Fruits de la Mer Madeleine (Madeleine Seafood) and Pêcheries Gros-Cap (Gros-Cap Fisheries) have had problems of this nature, also.  At the reunion of a consortium, it was decided that these businesses can use the space at Pêcheries Norpro (Norpro Fisheries), according to their needs.

It is believed that the Quebec Minister of Fisheries, Laurent Lessard, will give a positive signal to the deputy of the islands, Germain Chevarie, later this week and will agree to support such a project.

The municipal councillor of the Iles-de-la-Madeleine Municipality, Gérard Verdier is relatively optimistic and hopes the same renewal for the production, “It is regional equipment that we cannot lose, that we cannot dismantle”.