Government Operations committee  Yes, we are, because you also have to look at our alternative situation, which is that we have an issue with unfunded deferred maintenance liability. I can't tell you that we've got an awful lot of money to spend on maintenance in the traditional method of construction, so I'm co

Government Operations committee  Thank you. I'll follow up on that because this was in part a response to a labour market that was getting very difficult to find resources in and it wasn't uncommon for individual projects to be a year late because of the unavailability of particular tradespeople. The massing o

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chairman, the contract is a 30-year contract. Your observation is correct; however, for many of the items within a facility, 30 years is the end of their life cycle. One of the goals in our P3 project was to encourage the—

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry...?

Government Operations committee  No. We've built provisions in for that, sir. At the end of 30 years, those schools have to come back to us in good condition. There are evaluations during the course of the contract, and items that have to have a life-cycle replacement done prior to that are part of the contracto

Government Operations committee  Thank you. With regard to the transparency of the Alberta model, a great deal of effort was put into transparency through fairness auditors, so the transparency on the first round was exceptional. The documentation is readily available on websites. One of the key aspects of the

Government Operations committee  Bundling or bringing together enough schools to make it a large enough project was one of the elements considered in the P3 process. As people mentioned previously, it needs to be a certain size because of the complexity of the contractual arrangements and the legal documentation