Mr. Chairman, I cannot argue about the contacts that other law firms in the Northwest Territories may have. I can say that McLennan Ross do have a southern branch of their office, they certainly have a Yellowknife office, which has acknowledged expertise in corporate tax and corporate structuring. There was an urgency, as I said earlier, to get this done. I do not think that it was a matter of a week or two. I think if we start going into tendering or even call for proposals, we are probably looking at something closer to two months instead of two weeks in order to get this resolved.

We did want to get to all of the aboriginal assemblies, so we were working on a tight time frame. I am sure that if we were to put it out to a tender, the Member is probably right. Others would either have or would make arrangements to find that corporate tax, corporate structuring expertise but again, this was someone we were familiar with, someone who is very capable of doing the job and was referred to us. Thank you.