Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, some of the questions directed by Mr. Roland to Mr. Handley would have been better directed to me. Mr. Krutko's questions have to do with Finance, but we will try and provide some answers here.
I think everyone knows, hopefully everyone in this House knows, the people in the region of Inuvik know, that there is a commitment on the part of this government to replace the hospital in Inuvik. We went a long way down the public-private partnership road that used up a lot of time and a lot of energy.
When it was determined that this project was not going to be carried out under the method of acquisition of a P3 project, it was a decision of the Financial Management Board that we would return to a conventional tendering, capital acquisition option. At that time, my department was instructed to prepare a submission to go back to the Financial Management Board for the funding required to place this project under the capital acquisition plan. That is in the process of being done now.
I want to assure the Member we are working on this as expeditiously as possible. Maybe more important than the start date is the fact that we are committing to the completion date and not changing that: completion in the year 2003. Thank you.