Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe it was the last steering committee meeting we had in which the chair of the Inuvik board and the chair of the Baffin board were in attendance. We made a conscious decision that the strategic planning process was near completion and I am happy to report that it is at the end of the initial stage right now with the report, that the capital planning initiatives for both Inuvik and Iqaluit could be accelerated to a great degree. What we agreed upon was that the deputy Minister and the two CEOs from both Inuvik and Baffin would get together to identify and work out a work plan with some time lines on some of the things that would be required to facilitate getting the projects back on track.

It is my understanding, particularly with the Inuvik hospital replacement project that the Inuvik board has now gone to the stage of awarding a contract for the operational and functional programming review of that facility. I cannot say definitively at what stage that group is working. It is my understanding that the contract has been awarded. There is a plan to put together, as I indicated earlier, the work plan for both the projects. I have not had a chance to speak directly about that issue with my deputy minister yet and I know there was some difficulty between the two CEOs of the boards and the deputy minister setting aside a time to get that process under way, but I will check into that and I expect that it will happen shortly. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.