Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Along that same line of questioning, I can agree with the Minister that there is a huge need in the communities for housing and a need to put them on the ground as cheaply as we can. I certainly don't agree that to do that we have to throw the doors wide open and totally bypass all our northern partners, if I can call them that. I suspect that the Housing Corporation has over the past years worked with many people in industry that they can call partners. If this is the area that the Housing Corporation wants to go and they do have an agreement from Cabinet to waive the BIP on an issue such as this, I would think we could at least involve our northern partners in some way. I understand that the tender is not just open to northern contractors to bid on. It's wide open. I think that is a terrible move on this government. I cannot agree that this is a good move from this government or the Housing Corporation to just totally bypass our northern partners to look at this thing. We've talked about different approaches before to putting housing units in communities. We spent a lot of time in the last government going over a harmonization plan that was intending to do what the Minister is referring to now as a
10-year plan to remove people from dependency on housing. This is a 10-year plan being put in place with no involvement that I know of from committee Members or Regular Members. The first time I heard of it was in these main estimate reviews.
On the part of the 22 units that have been put out to tender, I don't see any northern content in them at all. I think the contract even calls for the 22 units on the highway system to be on pads, skirted and everything fully set up within that contract, which totally removes any northern content in the program at all. I would just like to clarify if that is the case. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.