I’ve heard several indications that there was an attempt to undermine the GNWT’s position by calling and harassing the lenders about the GNWT being incompetent and unable to manage this type of loan. I’ve heard this from various sources that expressed this quite adamantly. I would think the Finance Minister would be quite concerned and shocked by that suggestion.

The fact is we can’t have the reputation of the GNWT put at risk. I ask the Minister, once again, if this type of concern is out there, what would stop him from wanting to get to the bottom of why the lenders pulled the carpet out from the GNWT, put such financial risk on our government directly and caused us to have increases, major increases to the Deh Cho Bridge project, and now sitting here and waiting and saying, well, when it’s done. We should be doing this now.