Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This has been mentioned many times. It started in September, 1996, during our business plans for 1997, review of 1997-98. In November, 1996, Kivalliq leaders in Baker Lake raised the Keewatin pilot project as a project to be considered as part of the infrastructure transfer initiative, instead of each community. Each community was presented with community transfer initiatives. Each community knew about that.
When they got together as leaders, they thought this was a better way of doing business. The Member is trying to make an assumption this just came out of the blue just recently. When the mayors were here, they were getting frustrated with technical questions that were being asked of them. It was a very important situation to the mayors because they know what they want to do. It is not something that is being forced upon them. It is something that they have come up with at the leadership meeting of 1996, at the Baker Lake meeting. I am going to ask my deputy minister to elaborate some more on this.