Thank you.
I can respond to that question in terms of what Mr. Berger has found and what PricewaterhouseCoopers found in its analysis of the cost if the bilingual education system in Nunavut is not established in a successful way. What he reported is that there will be a net dollar cost to the Government of Canada of approximately $137 million per year as of 2003. Those costs include $72 million in lost Inuit salary and wages, as well as a cost to the Government of Canada in terms of recruiting, hiring, and training southern employees to come north and run the Government of Nunavut, and also an estimated cost in social assistance payments and effective tax revenue flowing back to the government.
