I just have a few comments and I will conclude with my motion. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for the numbers, but as Mr. Ramsay said, there are 838 square metres unaccounted for. That's kind of embarrassing. At least I would be embarrassed. You are saying that's a burned out section of the building, but it doesn't say...Okay. It says total building, vacant space, GNWT space, NGOs. If you add all that up, there is 838 square metres missing. Now if you say it's a burned out section of the building someplace, that's great, but say "burned out section of the building, 838 square metres." So the numbers do not add up. Trust me, I have a calculator here.
Mr. Chairman, this whole thing is bad on so many fronts. First of all, it's bad to throw away $3.5 million in a building that potentially won't be used after two years. It is bad that nobody is stepping up and taking responsibility or any accountability for this kind of planning. That's bad. That looks very bad on this government. If I had even an ounce of assurance that maybe this $3.5 million would extend the life of this building more than two years, that maybe the code requirements would make it so that we could use it for 10 years, I could probably swallow this. But to say two years for $3.5 million, then we have more money than we have brains. That's a sad state for any government to be in.
The talent pool is getting shallow when we have that kind of money to do upgrades to a 50-year-old building. Somebody said this is effective and wonderful for the people of Simpson, all these NGO spaces. One thing we didn't get into here is how much we are paying. Now we are finding out there are 838 square metres that are burned out. Are we heating these spaces? Look at all these other spaces, vacant spaces. What is the operational costs on this building? Just think of what the good people of Fort Simpson could do with that money. We have to be prudent on behalf of the people.