Mr. Chairman, I may have the chronology wrong here, but I believe the Department of Public Works and Services was the initial agency that developed or implemented an electronic maintenance management system. That was back in the late 1980s. Somewhere in or around that time or subsequent to that, I understand that Municipal and Community Affairs -- I think it was probably close to the early 1990s -- began development of a system specifically designed for communities for management of their maintenance program.
As I indicated a moment ago, there was a significant amount of discussion at that time as to whether or not the same system could be used or whether not Public Works would agree to using the community system. I believe that the development tended to show some differences in the way we wanted to carry out our individual mandates and the joint development of a system. The potential for joint use kind of broke down in the mid-90s. We have been operating essentially with Public Works operating its system since then.
Those communities which are actually up and running with a system -- which is not a lot of communities, I do not believe -- were using the system that was developed over at MACA. There are certainly similarities in the type of work we are doing. It is conceivable we could use the same system. It has not typically been a problem to date.