Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I will speak in general to the principle of what we are doing. It is our objective, in manufacturing northern products, to first of all have northern people manufacture them in the North; secondly, to get the retailers in the North to handle them in their stores and other services they provide. Then you have a normal market, where our products are sold by the northern stores and the Co-op, private sector and so on.
If we were to continue to sell the products ourselves in competition with the private sector, they would all just back away from it and we would end up with no stores carrying northern manufactured products. In order to not compete with them, but with an unfair advantage of the government, then we have to say that we will not sell directly if there is a privately-owned retail business selling the product.
In the case of the Fort McPherson tents, there are retail outlets who sell them. We cannot compete with them, otherwise they are going to say take your tents and sell them yourself. We would lose on that count. Thank you.