Thank you, Mr. Chair. We keep hearing discussions about a proposal that was out there. I’ll clarify for the record. The proposal was for a lease-purchase facility in Inuvik; the idea was to lease to the government for 25, 30 years and buy it out for $1. That was the proposal that was put out in the request for proposal.

But after the request for proposal was sent and reviewed, it came back that there were some financial implications because of Revenue Canada and the way they calculated the revenues from that lease. There was an implication where you had to pay the calculated amount of the lease, the front end, which was assessed at some $10 million. Again, I think the government has never made any attempt to go back and see if there was a possibility of a simple building, such as a P3 like we did in Fort Smith; we’ve been looking at P3s in other areas — the possibility of looking at another option than what was provided.

I’m wondering: has the government looked at options other than the ones that were looked at through the request for proposal in which there was interest from the private sector, along with the Gwich’in and Inuvialuit, in building a facility in Inuvik for the government in regard to office space?