Well, certainly my hope is that, based on my experience anyway, we will have competitive RFPs, if you want, from regional people. I think in fairness to the public purse and to ensure that we get good value for money and that there is a transparency in the process and a fairness in the process, it will be advertised on a territorial basis under the current policies and regulations of the GNWT which gives preference to, for example, in the BIP. I am fairly confident in my discussions with the business community and investment community, some of the aboriginal groups that we met including the Aboriginal Summit, that there will be people there who are sufficiently interested to ensure one, we have a competitive process and we get good value for money, and two, that we are optimistic that a number of these projects will be owned and operated by the residents of the communities. Again, I would stress that it would be difficult to limit it to that at this stage of the game given that they need to give us a truly competitive process and, of course, transparency and opportunity, and more important, the equity for everything. Thank you.
John Todd on Question 120-13(5): Access To Public/private Partnerships Initiative
In the Legislative Assembly on January 27th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 120-13(5): Access To Public/private Partnerships Initiative
Question 120-13(5): Access To Public/private Partnerships Initiative
Item 6: Oral Questions
January 26th, 1998
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John Todd Keewatin Central
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