Thank you, Madam Chair. Continuing on with my questions from yesterday, I just have a few more questions on the Novel housing project. Madam Chair, yesterday I was asking the Minister that it may well be that ATCO is the company and this Novel concept is the thing to go with. I mean, I'm willing to accept that assumption, but what I think is the most important thing in terms of our job here is doing the due diligence test, making sure that things are transparent, and that the government, when it's talking about a $300 million project, whether the money's coming from the federal government or territorial government, because we're looking at the latest figure of about $118 million from the federal government if we can get the money, including the CMHC money and $110 plus from the GNWT and private sector money. So I think maybe I'm just being too common sense about this, but if I had a $300 pot or project to work with I would think, I think the prudent thing to do is to just go to businesses that would do the work that may be able to provide housing to pipeline workers and say, hey, what could you do with $300 million? You know? It could be about this kind of scale, 1,400 mobile units or whatever. I just want to make sure that this government does their due diligence to at least tick it off and say, having looked at everything, we still want to go with Novel project. Would the Minister consider doing that, please?
Sandy Lee on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 7th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 6th, 2006
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