Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just had a few more comments on the Inuvik schools, if I could, similar to questions I have raised in the past and comments I have had in the past getting back to accountability. Again, I am supportive of the schools being replaced in Inuvik, but if you look at what the public sector would do if they had to replace an aging piece of infrastructure, it would have happened and it would have happened in a much more timely fashion. I don’t think we would have seen the scope changes, the design changes. I know that departments are up against it, because they’ve got a bunch of interested parties with district authority there in Inuvik. Things can get off the rails quite quickly.

But at the end of the day, when it is public money and the scope is changing — the design is changing, it seems like, on the fly — that comes with a price. Every time you change the design or you change the scope, it’s got to cost $100,000 or maybe even more. We’ve seen the project escalate in cost substantially — 35, 40 per cent. From where I sit, I have to worry: why does it take so long?

Now, the letter of intent for the negotiating contract went out in July, and here we are past the middle of October and still we don’t have a deal. We don’t have a firm price. We don’t have any of the security in place, and the negotiations are not concluded with the contract. I find that hard to believe — how it could take that long to sign off on this.

We need to get it done. We should have got it done. This should have been a number one priority of the government, and it seems to just keep slipping and slipping. The costs keep escalating. From an accountability standpoint we need to find out what has happened and make sure it doesn’t happen again, because we really need to replace the schools in Inuvik. That’s the bottom line.

I think we need a tighter way of handling things. If it’s been allowed to slip this much…. It has been over four years since the roof collapsed there. Here we are still talking about this. I just find it troublesome. Perhaps the Minister could comment on where the accountability lies in this with the escalation in costs, because I really do think we need to be accountable for the way this has gone off the rails.