Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to speak to the issue of the campus once again. The Minister earlier said that one of the reasons for it changing was the escalating costs and the low enrolments. I want to make a couple of points here. After recovering from such a blow, I have had a chance to go over some of the thoughts here and, in fact, that program, when it was first discussed, was well over $13 million. Then the Deh Cho went to an option that was $8.5 million. In that $8.5 million, there was not even any closet space in the campus.
I have looked at the plans that were presented for that figure. I had instructors from the campus coming to me, telling me they were very concerned that in fact we were building a centre that was already too small. It is interesting to hear the Minister saying it might be too large, when in fact I am aware that...for example, in September, there will be 13 courses being put on, and the campus only has room for ten. So we are going to be leasing space or the campus will be leasing space to put on some of the programs.
I cannot really blame other people who want to go other places, because that is an old building to be going to school in. It sure does not give you a positive outlook and give you energy for the day to go through your programming. I just wanted to put that out there. When this project was initially discussed, the value of the project, and this was estimated by the Department of Public Works and Services, and it ranged from a number of options which included renovating the old Grollier Hall facility or a new building. The cheapest scenario that came out was to build a new facility, not renovate an old one. You are looking at the years of life of the building and one of the options put forward was $13 million plus. Saying that it was an $8.5 million project with escalating costs as one of the reasons it had to be looked at, does not reflect the history of the project. I wanted to state that for the record. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.