Okay. The reason why I raise this, Mr. Chair, is because I appreciate that we are not experts in certain fields and we need to hire and form agreements. We just talked about that, in fact, over here as it related to the Heritage Fund, about getting experts to manage certain things. That said, though, when I look at other jurisdictions that are responsible for their information super-highways, Alberta is a good example. The Government of Alberta maintenance ownership over that asset and then might have a small contractor managing the technical aspects of it, but they get to generate significant revenue off of it by leasing, for lack of knowing the technical term, but essentially "leasing space out" to those who have an interest in accessing the information highway. I think that it would have been an excellent opportunity for us in the arrangement that we made with regard to this fibre optic line to find a way in which this could have ended up being a much larger revenue generator for us as a government. It seems to me that, clearly, we are paying an abundance of money to a manager, and yet we are making very little on the other end in terms of revenue. So how long do we have this agreement in place, and is there a future opportunity to renegotiate a financial situation that is going to be more beneficial to northern ratepayers? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Cory Vanthuyne on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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