Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’d agree with everything the Minister has just stated about reasons why we should look at hydro expansion in the Northwest Territories. That’s not debatable. What’s debatable in all of this is the government’s involvement, again, with another partner who had no equity, who the government, in fact, had to pay to be our partner. I mean, what kind of partner is a partner that you actually have to pay to show up?
The government got lambasted over the Auditor General’s report on the Deh Cho Bridge. We have got to, at the end of the day, learn some lessons about partnerships, and how we get into partnerships, and what risk we are going to put taxpayers’ dollars at here in the Northwest Territories. This is another example of the government going out and flaunting that responsibility to look after the public purse, because how is the $4.2 million going to come back to the Government of the Northwest Territories?
One point seven five million is what we paid to the partner to be our partner. Again, I’m having trouble understanding why we would have a partner that we’d have to actually pay. Maybe I’ll start with that question to the Minister. Thank you.