Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In negotiating a way forward, and negotiating with Ruskin on the completion of the Deh Cho Bridge, I mentioned this earlier in response to another question, if we don’t open the bridge in November, it’s an immediate $9 million hit to the Government of the Northwest Territories. What we’ve done is negotiated our way out of a number of construction claims on the project that run in the millions of dollars, somewhere probably around $10 million. This way we’re going to move forward. Yes, it is
going to cost us some more money, but we’re getting budget certainty and schedule certainty, and we know what we need to get the project done. That’s the most important thing, is that we’re protecting the public purse. This is the best decision, best course of action the government can take on the project at this date.