Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think for the record, it is important to respond to the first part of my honourable colleague's question, and that is with respect to those members of the government that did not purchase their housing. It was not that they were not given the opportunity, they just chose not to. I think that is important. As I said on
a number of occasions, I found it somewhat difficult to comprehend why they did not. Anyway, with respect to the privatization of property management, it was a two-year exercise, I believe, in the Keewatin. Under a group called the Piruqsaijit Group, which is a locally owned development corporation, Inuit owned. My understanding, talking to Mr. Voytilla, we are in the final touches of evaluating that. I think it would be fair to say that we are generally pleased with the way it has gone, so far. My desire would be that we would go out, not into Iqaluit, but into the Baffin. It just would not be, I know you particularly like to talk about your riding, but there are other communities. We would be going forward with the property management tender that would look after the remaining housing stock that the government has in any private sector housing stock that the government leases.
However, we are in discussions with the Interim Commissioner's office with that because we are still trying to come to an agreement on the protocol agreement with respect to contracts that go beyond 1999. So, no decision has been made. My desire would be, as the Minister responsible, to proceed with a property management contract in the Baffin Island. We are still discussing that with the Interim Commissioner. Assuming we can get him on side, we would like to proceed with that. We think there is some value in that. Thank you.