Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, reading unedited Hansard from yesterday, page 1362, I would like to quote a statement:

I did receive a phone call from a contractor in Inuvik asking us if the department was competing with them in the crushing business. I told him as far as I am concerned and as I know, the department is not interested in competing with them.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the Minister, how is it that you state that you are not interested in competing against a contractor yet, Mr. Speaker, this was not a government contract, so how could you have been competing against this contractor?