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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.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’ll refer that program question to the Minister of Education.
We don’t have that complete list. Once again, I can get the information for the Member of what major buildings were assessed.
Mr. Chairman, I would defer to the Minister of Education, Mr. Lafferty.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’ll refer that specific question to Minister Lafferty.
I hesitated to give a definition for deferred maintenance because I assumed I would be told I was being obtuse, that clearly he wanted the detail of what the money was going to be spent on. I just want to apologize to the Member.
Deferred maintenance is maintenance that should have been completed at a previous time but wasn’t for various reasons, usually fiscal. It has now been identified as needing to be done, which is why we’re spending the millions of dollars we have identified as a Legislature: to try to catch up on that particular backlog.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s on the schedule to reappear in 2011–12, and go forward for a project size of $15.691 million.
Mr. Chairman, that level of detail for a project that was worked on this summer I don’t have before us, but I could get what information I can to the member.