At this juncture of our budget approval, it’s very hard to accept Mr. Neudorf’s answers on my question. Surely he must know the numbers that they estimated. He’s got a lot of smart people in the department; they have consultants. They surely must know what they’re paying or what they estimate for anything like this to go forward.

I can’t believe the government’s going to operate their operations on this type of answer to my question; a simple question. He said this is about $1.7 million to complete rebuilding the whole system. He’s saying that southern institutions, southern people have the technology for this and they’re going to be bringing this up into the Northwest Territories. So much for working with northern people on this. I wonder if this request even went to the northern firms to see if they could develop something like this in the North, rather than, say, something in the South there. I think the responses I’m getting back from the deputy are not sitting well with me on this southern contract going to the South on this piece of infrastructure.