Mr. Chairman, just a couple of points. I am going to read from page ten of 20, just to get this thing in context. There were days when cash shortages or underage approached 10,000 peseta ($120 Canadian). In the second line Aurorales incurred a net overage of 105,114 peseta ($1,236.63 Canadian). When you read the one line that says there were shortages some days of $120, overall, Mr. Chairman, there were overages of $1,236.63. Mr. Chairman, I am not saying that the Comptroller General was lax in doing his job or that he was over zealous. Accountants, people in similar situations to the Comptroller General's office operate under the FAA, and I respect that. As Minister of Finance I must uphold the Financial Administration Act.
All of the people who worked over there were young people from the Northwest Territories. I did not want to see them being thought of as perhaps absconding, and the disappearance of inventory being blamed upon them. Because it was not their fault. We were, as I have said before, working with a system that was put in place by the Spanish authorities. It did not quite fit, obviously, the Financial Administration Act of the Northwest Territories and we could not derive enough from that system to meet all the requirements that are required when a government is spending money. Mr. Chairman, when I say we did not let the people of the Northwest Territories down, I wanted people to know that the Northwest Territories was well represented by the people that were there, they were held in high esteem and that I only received one complaint throughout all of the people who went through there. I received a whole lot of compliments from people who had gone through there and said that it was enlightening, it was pleasing and that they had a good time there. That was the way that I was suggesting that the exposition did not let the people of the Northwest Territories down. I was saying that it gave people a good view of the Northwest Territories and that they were satisfied with their visit to the pavilion and to the restaurant. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.