Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First, on the flexibility at the community consultation, I agree with the Member that we should have flexibility there.
When I'm talking about capital standards and criteria, I think it has to be laid out and it has to be made very clear to all parties involved that these are the 1994 standards of government for offices or whatever it may be: schools, renewable resource buildings. This is what is acceptable, this is what will be rejected. And if we have those standards and criteria and the proper planning, then you will not have conflicts between departments and DPW, and everything will be very clear and it would speed up the process. That's what I'm talking about when I say standards and criteria.
When you work with the community...I know that it's different in Grise Fiord than it is in Fort Resolution. So you have to adapt to that, and you should be able to do that.
The standards, for example, in a building that I know of is that they may want their own garage when they don't really need it because DPW does service vehicles, but that drives the cost of the building up. So we have to get those types of things in order.
As far as individuals leasing back to the Government of the Northwest Territories, it's been the direction of this government that we do go to lease back as much as possible. It's a more costly way to do business. Everybody realizes all we're doing is offsetting the hit. But we do lease all our offices and that's the way we do business: through lease.
As far as any other major leases that you may be referring to, I think it's something that has to be found by the FMB, not me.