Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, since we’ve opened up this debate beyond the $5 million, I’m going to spearhead my conversation on that premise as well.

I’ve got to give a lot of credit to IRC and the people of Beaufort-Delta for putting on a very good program bringing this project to light. They were very well organized, and I believe that they deserve a lot of credit for bringing it forward. Where I find a problem is I don’t think our government was in line with the project. By that I mean the fact that we’ve asked and always asked from a Minister, whether it’s the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Transportation, to be totally upfront about this

project right from the get-go. Show us the numbers. Show us the math. Show us the risk. Not only us, but show the public that information, as well, so that we can make an informed decision when the time comes.

I’m going to read you a passage very quickly here from March 5, 2013, from Minister Ramsay, and it says: “It is this Assembly that is going to ultimately make the decision on whether the project moves forward or not. All this information is going to be made available to both Members and the public.”

Members have received information, but what made it very difficult was we were hampered, we were put on gag order that we couldn’t share this information, not even on the floor of the House. We couldn’t even go outside the floor of the House to talk about this project, and it’s a great project. As I said, a lot of hard work has gone on behind the scenes and I pass a lot of credit for all the people behind the scenes in making this happen.

It comes down to a couple of areas, and we talked a bit about the math that we had before us. Again, depending how you look at it, if my calculations are accurate, we’re on the hook for $99 million, but we’ve already put $12 million, so we’re in it for $111 million. If you put that in the premise of the big picture, that’s 35.7 percent, and the feds are in it for 64.3 percent. Those are hard numbers. We can dispute it as much as we want, but we’re not at 75/25, that’s for sure. And you know what? That’s the numbers. I can go forward with that, as long as we know that there are numbers out there and that the public hears those numbers.

The other part of this exercise is the fact that the public has not seen the risk of this project, and I want to take a minute here to talk about that. I brought this up in the Committee of the Whole deliberation last week, and I told the Minister of Transportation of the day, if I had to pull up, and I did pull up in front of him the Department of Transportation website. The last information that was given to the public that was published on their website was May of 2011. That’s 22 months old. Since that time, since last week the Department of Transportation added the EIRB final report, which it says January 2013, but that was just added there. The public has not seen anything for 22 months.

Now, there may have been discussion in here, and there have been reports in the media, but this is the Department of Transportation telling the public what’s going on in this project, and I scathed the department and the government here for not sharing when they could have been sharing all along. Now we’re faced with a dilemma of having to authorize $5 million, and on top of that, I’m sure we’re going to be talking some other contributions of a significant capacity later on today, and the public still does not know the risk.

My first questions are about the risk. Can the department indicate to me what are the major risks? Again, in terms of categories of risk, I’ve talked about a risk matrix. I can’t talk about a document that’s not tabled. What I’m going to talk about is the document that I have in front of me here, which makes it very difficult, but I’m going to do that. There are risks to this project, and I think people need to know what those risks are. My question to the Minister here is: How many of those are considered very high risks? How many high risks do we have in this project? Of the total risks that were assigned to this project, how many are of very high risk?