Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, there are probably many ways of doing negotiated contracts, or similar ways of stimulating the local economy. Mr. Speaker, our draft negotiated policy is now at the point where, I believe, we are soon going out for consultation with the aboriginal communities. At that point, we will get their feedback. With regard to the federal Set-Aside Program, we have looked at that one. That one has its weaknesses, too, Mr. Speaker. The two weaknesses as I see, just off the top of my head, are: if a community is 80 percent aboriginal residents, then it would qualify for the set-aside policy. That project would then be tendered to aboriginal corporations across the country. So there is no protection for that community. If you go anywhere, the contract in Northwest Territories could be given to an Ontario or New Brunswick aboriginal company. I don't think that is quite what we want to do here.
The second one, of course, is that there isn't provision in that set-aside policy for RFPs. It is either tendered broadly, or tender the project to aboriginal businesses. We like to go more toward a request for proposal, so there is more flexibility in how we award the contracts. But there are many ways, Mr. Speaker, of achieving this objective. Thank you.