Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am not making assumptions out of the blue for the Minister. I am not asking you questions, Madam Minister, to upset you, to cause you any concern. I am asking you those questions because I want to know the answers. There has been no proposal put on the table. There are several questions outstanding. It might be the best proposal in the world. You do not know that until you have the facts.
I was not at the Baker Lake meeting as you know in 1996, why would I have been there? How would I have known that? All I can go by is the information provided to me from going through the Hansards, from going through the transcripts. The only thing that was involved in the Keewatin transfer that was talked about in any committee was the airport transfer, not this block funding agreement that the deputy minister just spoke about.
I have specific questions on it and I am not here to get into a debate on where I am coming up with this and how in the committee meeting, no one other than you or the mayors had an opportunity to comment on questions of a technical nature. I am not prepared to go and debate that, because I did not ask any questions of a technical nature. I do not like that connotation, but I will follow up on my questions. I do not think that is fair, Mr. Chairman.
My follow-up question is, would legislation be required to enable the region to assume the functions or would some other legal mechanism be available? Thank you.