Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It has come to my attention that in 1994, housing retrofit contracts for Pond Inlet were awarded to a company named D and B Construction, and have since been given to Kheraj Enterprises Limited from Resolute Bay. I was informed that the owner of D and B was pressured into subcontracting his contracts to Kheraj Enterprises Limited. Chris Lupiano, an official from the Housing Corporation in Yellowknife, met with Aziz in Resolute to discuss the whole issue. One D and B official was contacted on the same day by both the official of the Housing Corporation and Kheraj Enterprises persuading him to subcontract the whole retrofit work to Kheraj Enterprises.

My question would be why the retrofit was not retendered if it wasn't going to be done by the contractor who was given the contract to do it. There are two contractors capable of doing the work presently in Pond Inlet at this moment.

On the other matter, I would like to know what is happening with our review of Kheraj Enterprises Limited local status for Pond Inlet. DPW personnel in Pond Inlet recently observed for themselves that all of Kheraj Enterprises Limited houses and mobile equipment are boarded up; and, though the Kheraj operation in Pond Inlet was set to be seasonal, the local contractors are operating 365 days of the year and maintaining two maintenance garages.

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.