Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Basically, I support the bill. I have a couple of concerns that I would like the Minister to address. I have publicly stated before that I have a concern about the incremental costs of division and the possibility of letting the federal government off the hook.

There's a good argument about why we have to start doing things. Division can't happen overnight, and we have to start, in an orderly and structured way, to get there. I'm willing to support this bill as long as I know that any time we do this type of thing, any time we do anything which leads towards division, a letter goes to the federal government telling them we are doing it, that we expect there are going to be incremental costs, that we will make an accounting of those costs, and at the end of the day, we expect it to be part of the discussion about incremental costs.

I think it is important that the relevant departments, whether it is DIAND or Finance, know exactly that this is the beginning of a process. We would be foolish to leave everything to the last moment. We should tell them we have a concern that at the end of the day there will be incremental costs to dividing Arctic College into two.

I would ask the Minister to give me some assurances that the incremental costs will be recorded and the federal government will be informed that this is the process we are going to undergo. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.