Mr. Chairman, when items are selected for privatization, first of all there's a general discussion about whether it could be privatized. If it is privatized, is the expertise in the Northwest Territories to continue that function? When we looked at printing and publications, we ascertained that certainly there were business people in the Northwest Territories who were quite capable of doing the job that was previously done in government. I must say that some of Mr. Dent's own constituents have come up to me and said, in no uncertain terms, that they're certainly in favour of privatization. I would assume from that, Mr. Chairman, that they had received some contracts or had done some work for the government and were putting their process to work much more than they had been before.
First of all, as I said, could the people in the Northwest Territories...is there expertise to do it? Secondly, does it make sense? Is it something that's concise enough in government that it could be privatized and not affect all the government. We looked at printing, sale of Government of the Northwest Territories publications -- which was sort of connected -- and liquor warehouses and liquor stores. Of course, when it came to liquor stores, it had been done in the past and there was considerable knowledge on how it had worked in the past and that knowledge was drawn upon. It was taken a little further because there was a warehouse in Hay River which was totally privatized. That was done on the basis of a tender or proposal call -- I can't remember which, Mr. Chairman. I can assure the Members here that those numbers that were received by the liquor board were looked at and analyzed to see whether or not government would in fact gain from it. At the present time, we believe it's working well. I'm not prepared to say here and now that we're going to save a whole lot of dollars, but if it's a wash then I think we'll be happy with the fact that we're getting out of some businesses that private sector can get involved in, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.