This project was estimated at about $200 million last year, but now it is up to almost $300 million. It is a huge project that I think the Minister would be well advised to put in writing. I am not sure that, this being a future project, should preclude that. My understanding also, Mr. Chair, is that the agreement that the former Minister Fontana gave is to the effect that the federal government will fund it at the back end, meaning that they would only invest whatever their portion is once the project is up and running, which tells me that the federal government is not ready to take those risks and liabilities associated with this project, which puts into question for me the trust and confidence they have in this project. So I think that is something that the Minister really has to work out here.

I have a lot of questions here, so I am going to move into the next question. That has to do with an assumption here which says that, one of the assumptions, of course, is that the ATCO has to win the contract. Let me just state that I don't have any knowledge or information, but ATCO, I know, is a good company. They do a lot of work. My question here has to do with this as a business project. Is the Minister not concerned that a government is actively promoting a project like this, which the government has already stated in my written answer, that the government has been very active in promoting the Novel initiative? It is right here in the written answer. Is the government not concerned that the Minister and the government spending time and energy and money actively sponsoring a project like this might be seen as interfering with the private market effort? I could see it as we have two airlines, First Air and Canadian North. Would it not be problematic to any third party if the government starts lobbying for one airline to get all the contracts for the pipeline or something like that? Has the Minister ever considered that it might be inappropriate even for a government to sort of back one company and to say, even though the government says it is assumed, this is not going to go until they get the contract...Well, if the government backs the project, the government says they are going to buy from ATCO, isn't it ...It says in the answer here that the government has not really talked to Imperial Oil in a serious way because they don't want to talk about it until they know that they are going to go with the pipeline, but there is too much of that grey stuff that I don't really like. I would like to know if the Minister, as a Minister of this government, addressed that question in his mind about whether that is an appropriate thing for him to do.