Thank you, Madam Chair. Welcome to the Minister and Public Works

delegation. Madam Chair, there are just two areas I want to open up in general comments because they are really hard to see where they fall within the scope of the budget.

The first comment I have for the Minister is I took it upon myself to do a fairly intrinsic post-mortem of the Inuvik E3 School in the fall of last year, and was challenging the same for the department to follow up with their version of a post-mortem.

The rationale behind that is not to undermine or point fingers at whatever we could have or should have, the point is this is one of our largest pieces of infrastructure. In fact, even after the completion or, as we know today, the completion of the Inuvik-Tuk highway, the E3 School will still remain as probably the second largest infrastructure on our books behind the Deh Cho Bridge. It is a very important part of our history. I think it’s a history that we’ve got to learn. There were lots of new factors that went into the E3 School. This is where the birth of the Class C estimate program and the use of market escalators in their calculations, so I may want the Minister to comment as to where the department is at with respect to their post-mortem on that piece of infrastructure.

The second comment I have here, again, is in relation to the infrastructure that we find here in Yellowknife, the new 10,000 square foot office building that’s currently in construction. I would probably like to get a bit of an update as to where we are with that project. The concern I have is that I’m always nervous when we have a project of that magnitude that’s spread out over a number of different budgets. I know we’re talking more operations and this is a capital, and I completely understand that, but I think it goes hand in hand with some of the operational expenditures that we see in today’s budget. A bit of a recap as to where we’re at, are we on budget, everything’s working, and then maybe an estimated time of completion.

Really, in general, just two general questions to open up. Thank you.