Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With all due respect to all the people who are waiting in line for Legal Aid lawyers, we know this has been an ongoing thing for many years. We know the current practice is anything the Legal Aid clinic cannot handle, they get farmed off to private lawyers. That's how this gets done. It's quite troubling that something like this is done by way of a special warrant which really ties the hands of the members here because once this has been allocated, there is nothing we can do about it and $115,000 is gone. I have a problem with that and I believe the use of special warrants should be revisited.
Secondly, Mr. Chairman, I have a question on some of the timing of this. The information the Minister has give us is that the tender for the office space for a second Legal Aid clinic went out on August 9th. It was closed on August 27th. On August 31st, it was determined that there were no successful bidders, but the information we have here is that on August 22nd, five days before the proposal closed, the special warrant was approved by FMB to spend $115,000 for leasehold improvements. That's just to renovate what turned out to be a shoe store into an office. How was it determined, five days before the deal was determined, how much money had to be spent? As of today, there has been no renovation that has taken place with this money. That space is still a shoe store and there is not one cent of the money spent. Why was it determined that on August 22nd, even before the lease was let, that money had to be allocated for improvements? Thank you.