Mr. Speaker, the facility at this time, as I understand it, would be a physical structure where the diamonds would be shipped from the production sites and sorted in a manner that an expert trained in trying assess the value of these diamonds would have access to them, be able to put a specific value on these rough diamonds for the purposes of the Government of Canada, for instance, deciding what their share of the value would be in terms of taxes or royalties. That would be the primary purpose of the facility. It would involve a very high element of security, of course. Whether that facility would be going on continuously, whether there would be a diamond evaluator working in shifts, one person doing, doing it part time, I am not aware of. I am not really able to provide any more information than that. But as I said, there will be a report as we have engaged an expert in this field to provide us with some details. We will be meeting with him in the first week of March. Thank you.
Stephen Kakfwi on Question 298-13(4): Diamond Evaluation Facility
In the Legislative Assembly on February 12th, 1997. See this statement in context.
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Question 298-13(4): Diamond Evaluation Facility
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 11th, 1997
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