At long last this is close to being decided I gather - but one significant outstanding issue is whether there will be a Finance Committee to scrutinise the government's budget and spending.
One caveat about buying Dawson is that the stock has a very small float of just 5.1 million shares (and 5.6 million total outstanding shares), even after a recent secondary stock offering to finance the purchase of more equipment and to hire more crews to fill its nine-month backlog of orders for service.