Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have been before committee. We were before committee providing information back in December. February 20th we were back in front of committee.

Any assertion that we haven’t been sharing information is a false one. The information has been shared with Members of this House. Members of this House are representatives of the people of the Northwest Territories. We have shared the information. We’ve committed today to get a plain language document that we can share publicly. We’re going to do that.

We’ve shared that with Members today, in the lead up to today, when we finally did receive confirmation from the federal government on the additional $50 million. The project was, in essence, hanging in the balance. We didn’t have the commitment from the federal government. There are reasons why we don’t expose ourselves by putting all the information out in the public realm. We don’t get public expectations up. We needed to know exactly what we were getting ourselves into.

With the commitment today of the additional $50 million, we are ready to move forward. We have committed to put that information into that document that Members have. The public will have it, and we’ll get it on our website. I don’t want anybody that’s watching the proceedings tonight to think for one second that it’s my intention as Minister, or this government’s intention to keep

information from the public. That’s not our intention at all.