Mr. Chairman, I would just like to make it clear that I have no hesitation or difficulties at all with seeing some $5.5 million, or I guess a total of $6 million forecast in future for renovations to the Aurora Campus.
As I recall, the Department of Education got this building for $1 from the military. It's an incredible facility, but old; very old. But still the replacement cost would be staggering to get that kind of square footage. So I'm really quite pleased to see this substantial expenditure envisioned as an investment in our human resources in that region.
What makes me curious, though, is that there's a similar ancient building inherited from the military in the Baffin region, namely the single student residence in Iqaluit, about which minor capital renovations I made such a fuss about last week. I guess what I would like to ask the Minister is, is the department thinking similarly that money should be budgeted to renovate the so called Federal Building in Baffin which includes, like the Aurora Campus, shops, residences, classroom space. I'm just curious why we don't see some planning money or some renovation money also in place for that building. It seems that it's very comparable to the old building in the Aurora Campus in Inuvik. Thank you.