Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. The way you depicted the sequence is good. The conference in Port-au-Prince was to inform the bidders prior to their final submission, and the process was never completed. After the earthquake we paused and relaunched the process. Essentially everybody who h

Foreign Affairs committee  The two bidders didn't meet the mandatory requirement, so we had to relaunch it.

Foreign Affairs committee  They are Canadian mandatory requirements, but they're contractual requirements. They're not necessarily linked to the building code. That is the next step once we've selected the builder.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's right.

Foreign Affairs committee  What I'm alluding to are Treasury Board contractual rules, so at this point it's a matter of the bidders meeting those rules.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for your question. First let me assure you that we are determined to have this police academy built. True, the project was launched in 2008. The request for proposal was launched in 2009. Of course, there was the earthquake, so we had to stop the process. And

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely. The work was started before the earthquake, and then the earthquake happened. There was a bidders' conference during the earthquake, and some of the bidders were in Port-au-Prince when the earthquake happened. So we had to pause for a little while and relaunch the pro

Foreign Affairs committee  No, they were—

Foreign Affairs committee  They were international, that's right, but the bidders' conference was held in Haiti. As I said, the mandatory requirements weren't met by the bidders, so we had to relaunch the process. But we are determined to get this police academy going, and we are hoping that by spring 201

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, the spring of 2012.

Foreign Affairs committee  There was an earthquake in the meantime.

Foreign Affairs committee  The site is cleared, and we are working on the request for proposal. It has been relaunched, and we're waiting for proposals from bidders.

Foreign Affairs committee  We've launched the process and we're in the middle of that process.

Foreign Affairs committee  We've got to follow the rules.

Foreign Affairs committee  No, of course not. We were having this conference of bidders in Port-au-Prince to have a conversation with the bidders themselves, but because of the earthquake we had to stop the process.