In proposals, the company that submits a proposal indicates the companies that they intend to work with, the work that they plan to have those individual companies doing. We have contracting staff and Public Works and Services staff – sorry; this was a tender – in the community who is reviewing their compliance with the contract that was signed. The contract makes specific reference to the individual local companies and NWT companies that they will be utilizing for services.

By way of example, on this particular project, 50 workers in Inuvik were enrolled in the training course arranged by the successful contractor. On the first day of work, 30 were present to start work on that facility. Twenty-five, from what I understand, are still working on that project. They made a commitment to use local resources. They identified the local resources that they intend to use. We monitor, on a regular basis, their compliance with the contract that they have signed with us to make sure that they are in compliance. That would be true whether BIP applied or not in this particular case.

If we sign a contract with an individual for a project, we monitor those projects to make sure that the individual company or provider is staying true to the contract that they signed.