Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a question for the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. Mr. Speaker, when the territorial committee was being discussed in this House, at that time the Member indicated, in his bid for cabinet, that he had 11 continuous years of experience as a Minister. One of the reasons that he wanted us to consider him was because he had good contacts with the present federal government; he was on a first name basis with the Prime Minister and almost every Member of his Cabinet.
I would like to know, with his contacts that he supposedly said he has, whether or not he has been able to deal with any of the outstanding large amounts of grants in lieu of taxes to the larger municipalities that has been an outstanding dispute for quite some time now.