Thank you. Mr. Speaker, firstly I must say that I do understand the Member's and the company NTCL's concern about possibly losing what amounts to a very lucrative contract over the years. I think it is important to clarify that we are not ruling out NTCL in this process. What we are doing is we are making the process competitive and open. We did, in fact, do that last year with the Eastern Arctic Fuel Resupply. In that contract, NTCL won fair and square because they had the best proposal. I think it is fair to say that with this process that we have outlined, NTCL does have the upper hand right at square one because of their experience, because of their equipment, personnel, et cetera. The linkage between the dry cargo and fuel delivery is because during the consultation there was a fair amount of concern among some of the Keewatin communities on how the dry cargo resupply would be affected by the possible loss of fuel being delivered to the community by barge. That is why we have structured the RFP to make sure that when a company puts forward a proposal on how they would deliver fuel to the Keewatin communities, they also tell us the how's, why's and where's, they would deliver the dry cargo.
Goo Arlooktoo on Question 6-13(5): Keewatin Resupply Initiative
In the Legislative Assembly on October 21st, 1997. See this statement in context.
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Question 6-13(5): Keewatin Resupply Initiative
Item 6: Oral Questions
October 20th, 1997
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Goo Arlooktoo Baffin South
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