Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The department considered and continues to consider all aspects of initiative. For instance, there is an agreement to continue to take inmates for the territory of Nunavut. It means that we have to, as quickly as possible, provide adequate accommodations in an institution that we can with some dignity offer to provide to Nunavut. We are compelled by the fire marshal to provide new facilities to the young offenders within two years.

We are compelled by the shrinking financial resources of this government to look at cost savings every way possible. We look at the services that are required by the inmates. We look at the need for inmates to have some means by which family, relatives, friends can have access to the inmates by way of visiting and support. We have looked at the kind of services that are available in Yellowknife that are not available elsewhere. We have looked at a number of elements to these. Based on those, I have decided that the original Cabinet's decision to locate the young offenders facility here in Yellowknife should be honoured and not revisited. As far as I am concerned, the adult facility is located here in Yellowknife. Whether we do a major renovation or replace an existing facility piece by piece and then in the end have a whole new building, is not really that much different from doing a whole new capital project, but technically people can argue that it is but, in fact, the location of the adult facility has never been an issue and if it was, it certainly was not visited by Cabinet in June and September of 1998. Thank you.