Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To respond to Mr. Zoe's question, I'll be candid with this. When I talked to my deputy minister and gave him the commitment I made in the House the day the Member for Deh Cho asked the question whether an independent committee could do the investigation on this contract, my deputy and I had trouble interpreting committee, whether it was a committee of this Legislature, or what. We didn't know. I told him that there was urgency to get this going.
Between me and my deputy Minister, we decided that it would take a lot longer to try to get a number of people to investigate this. I instructed him to find out if we could get a person to investigate not just the contract, but how the events took place that led to the termination of the contract. I told my deputy minister that I felt the legalities of the contract could be handled by a private firm or private lawyer, and not a government lawyer. There were serious allegations made on the department and we both felt it would be fair that the whole thing be looked over.