This government and this Minister do not disregard policy. You can’t, obviously, go against policy.
We understand we’ve gotten letters of support. We’ve entered into two more negotiated contracts with contractors in the Member’s communities, two in one community, even though both have requested a negotiated contract, and according to the policy, if two or more request a negotiated contract, we could have used that as an opportunity to go public, but we recognize that we need to help the local economy. So we entered into a negotiated contract with two companies in the same community and we did put three of the duplexes out to a public tender so everybody has an opportunity. They have an opportunity to bid and they proved to me and to the corporation, at least one of them, that they can be successful in an open market.