Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First of all, I would like to thank the Member for her continued support of northern business. I think that's very important, and I think it is important for the entire government and this legislature to make sure that that is a priority.

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The Member does know that the genesis for this program was in the last Assembly. Much of this work and much of the program was quite far down the pipe. So the decision to engage in stick built versus mobile homes was not the nature of our discussions. Our discussion surrounded how to move forward since this decision had been made on rolling out the program and moving to the tender phase of this project.

I will acknowledge, we don't have a comprehensive picture of how much, and the value of the BIP. We don't know what it costs us, we presume that there is a premium surrounding the BIP and related to the BIP when it is applied to projects, but we don't know what that is. I have proposed that April 1st this year, tomorrow, we start to track this cost through our new contracts registry, we track if for a year. At the end of a year we can have an informed discussion about this premium, we will be able to document it. I think at that point we will be in a much better position to do the type of cost benefit analysis that the Member is asking for. I think the Member has a very valid concern in asking for this information. I would love to be able to provide it. I have to tell her, Mr. Speaker, that I can't do so for a year. Thank you.