Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess, to deal with some of the spin that Mr. Ramsay continues to put out there and innuendo about things lacking and potential trouble here and trouble there, we’ve dealt with this from the day I first took the chair as Premier of the 16th Legislative Assembly, we’ve provided the information. Unfortunately we find ourselves here

where we’re actually putting a document forward that would assume the debt and management of the project and make it a Government of the Northwest Territories, a fully owned and operated project of the Government of the Northwest Territories. The Member says let’s be frank and honest. Well, then I ask the Member himself to be frank and honest. Put out the facts. If he’s calling into question the designation of individuals who have signed off on the tests, then he needs to put that on the record. He should have, in fact, when he first came across this information, been down the hall to either myself or the Minister to say we’ve got some real serious issues where we have one engineer calling into question another engineer’s work so that we could actually look into it. Bigger and more importantly is we have one of the largest firms, or a very large firm in Canada now working as part of the project team. They, of course before they accept this and move on and sign off on a final product, will be doing their own inspections and audits.

Now, I’m surprised that the Member, who I believe is a card carrying Conservative, would say that the Conservative government would not honour their commitment, that the federal Minister of Finance won’t honour his commitment. I put a huge weight on the fact that we have a commitment from Mr. Flaherty to work with us on that and his staff have followed up with our staff. So we know that work is progressing on that basis.

Now, for actual technical pieces and some of the calls of question, you know, we’re protected as Members in this House, but that still should not allow us to throw out words and rhetoric that damage reputations of firms and individuals in the Northwest Territories or anywhere else we do business. So I would urge the Member, if he had facts, then he should be up to the Minister’s office to lay them down so that we could ensure that all the things that were done, but from what’s been laid out with our partnership, with the new project management team, with their credibility on the line, I am fully satisfied they will do that and I’m sure the Minister of Transportation will be able to give more detailed information on that project team. Thank you.