First of all, Mr. Chairman, if that is the view of the committee, then I apologize for it. That was not the intention to deal with you in that manner. I think that over the course of the last couple of years, some of the items you mentioned are on going different scenarios, especially the Rankin Inlet tank farm situation. There is a process that we went through as a government, as this department and we went before you and I tried to explain the best we could. We had briefings and laid everything down. I thought it was as clear as possible in that area. We knew certain things were still there and had to carry on. The intention was not to deal with you in an unfair manner, and I do not think I have done that. I think I try to be honest and fair and up front as much as possible.
In regard to the authority of this department, this department here, like I said, has taken quite a drastic cut in its overall budget, and there are projects that generally we have every year, and there are some projects that have successfully come in under the original estimated budget, so we have a surplus there. But again, not all projects come exactly right on budget. The nature of this department is that we are dealing with a lot of cases with the environment, weather conditions and so forth. So there are projects, let us say, airports, where there are at times maybe a contractor, maybe their bid may come way below what we anticipate the budget might be so we have a surplus. In some areas there will be areas where there are budget overruns, for example the section of highway between Rae and Providence, the contractor was not successful in completing that section this year so we are going to have to take a look at it, if they have expended all that is in the contract, I am saying that we stick to our contract. However, there are conditions where we may have to find some sort of funding from within the department from another project so that is the nature of this department. If you go back into the history of this department, this department was able to always do that, to move money around internally and whenever we did that, as soon as I knew we were going to have to do that, I wrote to the MLAs that were concerned about it, and then I notified the Chair of the standing committee concerned, and that is what we have done. We try to keep everybody informed as much as possible. I do not know what more we can do in that area.
Again, getting back to the Rankin Inlet tank farm, I would like to know specifically what the concern is there so that I could specifically try to explain that situation. Thank you.