Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In March of last year, the Department of Public Works made a presentation to Caucus on negotiated contracts and a possible principle and possible policy that could be coming forward for an overall government policy on negotiated contracts. The Department of Transportation does have a negotiated contract policy in place. While we were working on this negotiated contract

policy, the whole issue of article 24 came into being on the Nunavut claim. We had to switch our people from working on the negotiated contract policy over to working and addressing the article 24 issue and how this government sees the implementation of article 24. So, we have had that work done recently. These people, the Minister of DPW as well as Housing Corporation and the Minister of Transportation, with Mr. Kakfwi, the Minister of RWED, are overseeing and coordinating initiatives of this government. He has to be involved on economic initiatives, so that we can commit to this House that we will dust this file off and get back to working on an overall policy of negotiated contracts.