Mr. Chairman, the department became aware of this essentially two years ago, that this had started and that is when it first became noticeable. The impacts of it, we are really, at this stage, only beginning to be able to deal with that in our planning processes.

For example, last year, many of the projects that we had difficulty with were ones that were actually tendered the previous year and construction had started the previous year and that was when we first began to notice it. We seem to be into another construction cycle now where we have a number of new projects coming on line.

The information that we gathered two years ago is now being used in the development of designs for the program work that is currently in design and out to tender. Some of those projects are now able to take advantage of the information that we were able to obtain about the change in the construction trends in the south, but there is a time lag there.