Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think it was probably in August or September when the government realized there were going to be substantial cost overruns. At that point, it was necessary to make a decision to carry on or quit the project. Due to the amount of investment already in it, and because of the belief that it is a good system, the decision was made to carry on.

A lot of the cost overruns resulted from the failure of an agreement for each government to provide staff resources to work through the system. That was not done, I guess mainly on the Nunavut side. As a result, we had to hire contractors, which probably tripled the cost to continue on with this project. Thank you.