Mr. Speaker, this idea has been presented through our business plan process. We have talked to committee. We basically have offered tours for committee members to see the facility for themselves. It is not as if no one has been involved in this. I think it is important to realize that this is on the basis that we have a project. Without a project, this idea will not go anywhere. I think that we have to realize that, without a pipeline, this is not...Again, we are in the process of negotiations. This is part of the government's social impact benefits that we are hoping to derive from the pipeline that is presently under those negotiations. I have been presenting this to the federal Minister, looking at the federal monies that are coming forward. Because this project is so far in the future, we cannot commit to making any capital expenditures until we realize that the project is up and running, the units will be occupied for a number of years during construction, and then where we go after that.
There has been involvement from Cabinet colleagues and the Department of Finance. The federal government is aware of this. Again, we are depending on a lot of these dollars that we are talking about coming by way of the federal government initiatives. In the meantime, Mr. Speaker, we are aware that we have some challenges today. We have put proposals to the federal government looking at the $1.6 billion to deal with funding for the next three years. It is not as if we have been doing nothing. We are looking at that by way of getting federal funding. We are looking at somewhere in the range of about $25 million a year with matching funding. Hopefully, we will be able to put 100 units a year on the ground for the next three years. That is the objective we are trying to meet. We are working this through.
Mr. Speaker, those are some of the areas we covered. Again, a lot of these decisions - you talk about Novel - are all based on there being a pipeline. This is the concept that they will use to provide these workforce camps for the pipeline.