Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the question from the Member. The department continues to evaluate why our projects are going over. We try to take steps that would prevent the next projects from going over. We record, for instance, within the department, all the information that is related to a specific project.

We try to gather and do an analysis of what is causing the cost overruns, what the market was at that time. All of those things are taken into consideration. We then use that as guidelines when we put forward a price on the next project of a similar nature.

For instance, when we are constructing schools or constructing buildings for communities, we do not necessarily run into as many cost overruns because we have information to base our figures on. The only unknown in every case is the market. We have no control over the market. In this particular case, the market was going haywire as far as price was concerned and it is causing us problems.

However, we pointed out very early in the discussions with the Members and with the client department that we did not add inflation into the 1999 figure of $45 million. We did not take into consideration inflation, so that was one of the problems. Thank you.