Mahsi. The planning and investigation of converting workforce housing into independent houses has been underway for the last several years. It's been mentioned more than once that there has been a working committee made up of our government agencies and ATCO Group of Companies and CMHC officials. There is a steering committee that is looking at this, and all the aspects that we have talked about for the last few days and months have been under review. There are key things here.

I guess the key point of the concept is ATCO, as a major supplier of workforce housing, provided housing or camps to the Alyeska Pipeline way back when. At the end of that project, they had all these camps that there was no use for. They tried to sell them and tried to convert some of them. In the end, some were sold; the majority were bulldozed or destroyed. There was no economic use for that product. Now the next big pipeline is the one that is under discussion and negotiation, so the former executives of ATCO worked on the concept of converting a typical, eight by ten, one bed, one dresser unit and the modular unit that it's in into a house. So they have spent a considerable amount of research and development work in that. They came to us several years ago and said here is a concept. We looked at it and it made sense. So we have been working with them on the steering committee.

As a corporation, our investment so far has been time, effort and some money spent to take people down to look at the concept. We have taken delegations of leaders, MLAs, different people as they go through Calgary in different meetings, we invite them and the company to look at the prototype that is in the yard of ATCO structures.

That amount of money is what has been spent today. We are not asking for any more in this budget. We are asking for support to continue the work that we are doing. We know there are a series of other negotiations happening; socio-economic negotiations with this government. There is a team in place and they are working through the hearings and the monitoring. We are also meeting with the proponent groups in terms of other asks, in terms of socio-economic benefits to the Territories.

Right now, this deal, or the arrangements we are working on, is a business deal. We are saying here are the partners, here are what we think we can do. Obviously because it's negotiations, there is still no agreement between ATCO and the Mackenzie pipeline group as to whether or not they are going to supply housing. So when you ask for costs and all the details, we are in very sensitive areas because of that negotiation.

What we need to do right now is continue the work. There is a technical group of CMHC officials, ourselves, the ATCO Group of Companies. As we speak, the units are modified; the size, the cost, the materials that are being used, we are looking at energy. Part of the federal commitment is make sure it's energy efficient. Make sure we can use local labour and contractors in the communities to do conversions. There is talk about training and the development of that. Obviously in communities, we need properties and site developments, so there is a lot of work that has to happen much before that and we have to do that now. If we are to put in 20 to 30 houses into any community, it's going to have a huge impact on the infrastructure, water, sewage, garbage, firefighting, property, the lot development and road development. So when we talk about our affordable housing strategy, this ties in four or five years from now. When we go into communities now we have to top not only tomorrow's delivery, but prepare for 10 years, six, seven years from now, and that's what we're doing. I guess, we want to continue this and before even one nail or one staple is put into place on this concept, all the agreements have to be made, all the commitments have to be made and the concept that we're going to use Novel concept for workforce housing has to be agreed upon. So the due diligence has to be done. Mahsi.