Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe I answered this question a few days ago. There is opportunity, yes, to cancel. At what cost, I am not sure at this point. The request was proposed to me yesterday to look at extending the timelines by two weeks. We are looking at that, we have some legal people who have given us an opinion, whether we are in a position to do that at this point, do we have adequate time to give notice, we are not sure. We are checking also with the barge companies to see if we can move the dates given to us for shipping. Right now we are being told that those dates are firm, however, we are asking for some consideration. We are also being notified by them that there is a lot of oil and gas activity in the different communities that they have to ship to, they have other priorities, and they have community resupply. So our request is not a serious one to them; we are not a big customer. We are looking at that, we are asking them for reconsideration. So we are taking it to Cabinet tomorrow. We are going to have the discussion on whether we can go ahead with a two-week extension; but to waive the whole project at this point, I don't believe is something that we want to do.
I want to point out to the Member that we are also under extreme pressure from the communities not to do this, to continue to go ahead with this project and not waive it. It is something where there is a huge public outcry. We have heard it for years, we are trying to address it, we are trying to ensure that the communities in the Deh Cho, the
Beaufort and the Sahtu have houses for this year. We don't know what the effects of that will be by cancelling this project, and at this point, I will not consider advising or asking Cabinet. I wanted to just stress that point. Thank you.