Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to refer to yesterday when I was reading the committee report into the record. On page 22, there is a paragraph which talks about previously planned expenditures in excess of $10 million being cut from the five year plan. I just wanted to advise the committee, that paragraph seems a little bit ambiguous. What we were really referring to was the total planned expenditures reported in the 1994-95 capital forecast documents for the community of Yellowknife. They were actually $14 million less than planned expenditures reported in the previous year.
Because of that, Members were concerned about the magnitude of the changing plans and therefore questioned the capital planning process being used by the department.
I think that our recommendation then spoke to that. The Minister has advised that the department is, in fact, revising their capital planning criteria. I'm hopeful that in future budgets we won't see the same sort of dramatic shifts in funding, which call into question the capital planning process. I just wanted to clarify that point, Mr. Chairman. After reading the remarks in Hansard, that one paragraph appears to be a little bit ambiguous. It referred, in fact, to the $14 million that was cut from the budget for Yellowknife.