Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think, by and large, obviously, we do practice that principle. On a specific where we think there really will be no value added, no benefit in the North, then the question becomes one of finding a balance. Do you insist that the
BIP be in place and allow, as I've said, a northern middleman to apply an additional mark-up on the units being purchased, Mr. Speaker? That was the debate that we had. How much value was there in that? So what we decided was more important was affordable housing in communities. We've seen that the premise of this program is that they'll be on the cost-recovery basis, and even at that, $1,300 a month in communities for these three-bedroom mobile homes has been a challenge to get them filled. That's why, I believe, the Housing Minister is moving to the smaller units. But if we allowed for the BIP and it added an additional cost, we may have been talking about -- hypothetically, I don't know what the numbers would be -- maybe $1,350 per month, for homes.
We did feel there was value added in the install and the building of the pads for the trailers in communities, and that is why the BIP was applied to that portion of the contract. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.