Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One final question or maybe a request. Will it be the responsibility of the Housing Corporation, or maybe the Housing Corporation could find out how to do a really short preliminary work in that area and they would save this government a lot of dollars in the long run and also provide lots of employment and develop a manufacturing industry with a new housing market and develop the forestry industry. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Log homes are great, but unfortunately not everyone in the Northwest Territories will want log homes. For those that do, it is available and if it is cheap, it is great. My thinking is that we should be manufacturing homes of different styles, using northern lumber manufactured in the North, cut in the North by people in the North.

I know in Nunavut alone they need 2,000 homes today. That is without projections. The biggest cost they incur when they are building up there is the time it takes to put a house together. The short summer season does not allow them to finish the job. The work then goes into the following year and that is a cost overrun.

There have been studies done by private groups who say they could design a home, prefab it and send it anywhere in the Northwest Territories and put it together for around $285 with a team of four or five individuals. This, incidentally, is just enough for EI, for a lot of those guys who are working seasonal work. I am wondering if there has been a feasibility study done by the Housing Corporation in that area? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That is unfortunate, considering that in the Northwest Territories one of our greatest resources is forestry. There is a large inventory of forestry in the south side of the Mackenzie. I am just wondering if there has ever been a feasibility study being done to utilize the forestry industry in the Northwest Territories.

One of the communities in my riding is in the sawmill industry. One of the problems they have is trying to find a market for that industry. An idea that was to go out a couple of years ago and never really followed through was to build a manufacturing plant in a local area on the south side where the transportation link will be good, to build prefab homes that could be sold on the open market within the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Alaska, anywhere else in the world, actually. I am just wondering if the Housing Corporation has ever done a feasibility study to see if the costs to the Housing Corporation by using such a manufacturing plant will be beneficial to the Housing Corporation in terms of savings? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Housing Corporation, in the business of providing homes to the people of the Northwest Territories, is in the business of purchasing large quantities of lumber; plywood and other lumber materials associated with the construction and manufacturing of homes. I am wondering if the lumber comes from the Northwest Territories? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Well, I think it is 25 percent that is well worth it. Where does lumber product come from to the Housing Corporation? I am not aware of any manufacturers in the North that manufacture plywood and building materials. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That is very good. I think there is a need to support the northern manufacturers and people who sell products in the North. Has there ever been a study done to indicate the difference in cost if the corporation went to a cheaper source for quality material, it does not matter where in Canada or the world? A cost comparison?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Would the Minister tell me where they get their products when they build homes in the Northwest Territories? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I will ask a quick question. In page 1 of 2 of Public Works, in our red binder, I do not know what colour your binder is, there are compensation benefits for the departments in management, finance, policy planning, human resources, records management, programs in delivery, division management facility planning, et cetera.

That is for pay periods, and so those are administration costs. Am I to understand that each of these departments or organizations within the departments are paying their own staff and doing their own administration, human resources and so on?

Can the department tell me where they get their fuel? Do they get bulk sales at a preferential price? And is that preferential price reflective in the prices of pumps?