Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Our next resolution has to do with Delury and Associates Ltd. contracts. The committee is concerned with three contracts, spanning a two year period, from November, 1989 to December, 1991, totally $530,279. They were sole sourced with Delury and Associates Ltd. of Burns Lake, British Columbia.
We were informed that Mr. Delury was one of very few people with experience in the negotiation and implementation of a land claim settlement. The committee questions the practice of the sole sourcing, and value for money in these circumstances. In addition, the amount reported by the department did not agree with the G.N.W.T. contract listing.