Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A while ago we learned that the government has made a decision that they would retain the Arthur Laing building for government office space. Just to give a bit of background on this, last February as part of the office-saving space plan it was decided to sell the Arthur Laing building. An RFP was issued last summer to look for replacement office space. Apparently two responses were received and both of them were disappointing. Now we are at the stage where we are going to retain the Arthur Laing building and renovate it to the tune of some $3.8 million.

My question, Mr. Speaker, this goes back to the start of the Lahm Ridge Tower problem when it was to be taken off the market and it would have taken off 40 or 50,000 square feet from the vacant office space in Yellowknife, with the Laing building that was supposed to take off 50,000 or so square feet off the market in Yellowknife. I am wondering if the Minister of Public Works, Mr. Antoine, could tell us if he has an up-to-date office space rationalization plan that took this into consideration?