Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I believe I'm going to try to satisfy your suggestion. Indeed, the discussion has covered a lot of ground here and I'd like to put two asks before committee before the Housing Corporation on this to see if we can move it along. The first one, Mr. Chairman, relates to an aspect of this that Ms. Lee was talking about just a little while ago, and that is the verification, the testing of this concept and of the negotiations that are underway, and as the Minister says, have yet to be finalized. I think it is quite reasonable for the Minister to say look, we're still considering this, the corporation is not at the point yet where it has something to put forward for real tangible consideration, but it will get there and I'm anticipating relatively soon, or within the next fiscal year.
Mr. Chair, I think, to my satisfaction anyway, we've probed the idea enough. We have advised the corporation of where many of our essential concerns are and my ask of the corporation is that when it gets to the stage when the planning committee, that is CMHC, ATCO, the Housing Corporation, whoever else, when this committee deems that negotiations have reached a certain point where it needs to be aired that absolutely it comes before committee, but also at that stage that it cooperate with a third party fully independent, feasibility review of many aspects of this project, a lot of which have already been aired here. I've been making a bit of a list, Mr. Chair, and I would suggest the things I want to see in that third party review would cover the technical, engineering and financial risks and benefits, the lands issues, energy and operating costs over the life expectancy. Market suitability, Mr. Chairman, are these units really going to meet the demands and be flexible and versatile enough for our needs? It is essential that we look at market disruption. Having this many units come into our market in such a short period of time is going to create a huge wave of some kind both before and after the units are delivered. What will that impact be? The other aspect -- and I'm going to come back to it -- is northern manufacturing. So that's my first ask, Mr. Chair, is that a third party feasibility study, which, as Ms. Lee said, is standard process for virtually every kind of initiative we undertake that this be done and that it be considered an integral part of the planning process and the cost, which I suggest Mr. Chair should be assumed by the Executive or maybe ITI, but I want to see it separated from the corporation and any of the parties that have a vested interest. Let me stop there. Is that a realistic ask and I'd suggest a conclusion on that point that we don't need an answer today. If you want to consider that and come back to us at some point during our deliberations that's fine.