Michael Miltenberger

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I don’t have that record of decision with me, so I couldn’t speak specifically, but I could get that information.

I’d refer that to Mr. Neudorf, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There is a record of decision.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If there was any interest to get an opinion from the conflict commissioner, I would suggest we’d have to very clearly articulate the question so that we could get some indication as to the clear question that the Member would want put to the conflict commissioner for his advice. I would suggest at this point that when negotiated contracts are in the mix or being considered…. Right now a letter of support from the appropriate MLA or MLAs is a part of the process. With a negotiated contract, if an MLA happens also to be a Minister, then once that letter’s written, the...

I’d like to refer the question to Mr. Aumond, to speak to the Tulita school specifically.

Our assumption is that Dowland is aware of this procedure, the process that we’re in, and has not signed any contracts with subcontractors but is probably getting pricing and quotes so they can do their own numbers.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The government tracks all the contracts, and they issue reports. We have negotiated contract policies. We are of course interested in partnerships. As well, we consider joint ventures. One of the reasons that we had BIP initially was to try to support and maintain local businesses. We track all that information through the work that we do to compile all the contracts the government is engaged in over the course of the year.

Mr. Chairman, we don’t have a list of subcontractors at this time. Once a contract is formalized and all the details are ironed out, then the main contractor will make their arrangements with their subcontractors, at which time we’ll have all that information. But at this particular time we don’t have a list of subcontractors.

Yes, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Chairman, the letter of support that the Member references does indicate that there was a plan or discussions underway to negotiate with Dowland for a role and arrangement with the company so that they could take advantage of opportunities both in the North and outside of the North. But our role is not to track or become involved, once again, in the internal negotiations of private companies in terms of whatever their partnership structure is going to be. What we do know is that we have letters of support from Gwich’in, Inuvialuit and all the MLAs in the community of Inuvik supporting this...