The Member is correct. There was an RFP that the department put out last year. There was no response, for the reasons the Member raised. We did however get an unsolicited proposal from one of the proponents to build an office building and lease it. We used that as the basis to do the least cost scenario versus leasing or owning. As I indicated earlier, it was significantly less expensive for us to build and own the building ourselves.
I guess with respect to market disruption, we are not proposing to take anybody who was not in the Perry Building or in leased space into the new office complex. We’re only going to be accommodating those employees who were in the Perry Building and displaced when that building was closed and not people who are already in other government facilities.
We lease about 93 per cent of our office space in Inuvik. With construction of this building we’ll have a more balanced portfolio, but we will not be moving people out of leases who were in those buildings and who would otherwise be in the Perry Building. We’re just moving the people who were in the Perry Building, which has since been closed — other than Public Works, which is in there now on the bottom floor — and taking people from MACA, which is in an old government office, and people who are currently in Health and Social Services, who may move in and provide a client space there. We’re not going to be leasing any less space than we were prior to the Perry Building shutting down.