Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, we have not reached total agreement with the federal government yet on the application process, nor the criteria. That's because their proposal to us was not acceptable. I think

I said in the budget speech that Premier Cournoyea wrote to the Prime Minister and we've recently heard in the last ten days that they are willing to make some arrangements with us that would fit the local landscape better and enhance the program with some more dollars. What we are suggesting, Madam Speaker, to the federal government is that it would be done through the offices of Mr. Nerysoo under the same kinds of arrangements as the workers' training program that we had, the $6 million program that we had there through his department, and that the criteria would change. Whereas the other one was geared towards training people, this would be geared towards a capital project that would improve infrastructure in a community.

If we are successful in convincing the federal government that that is the way to go, and the mechanism in place, there won't be a lot of overhead. The majority of the dollars will get to the communities and to the people out there, and we'll see some infrastructure work done in communities. Not on a grand scale, I realize how expensive it is to do work in these communities, but we will get some things done and some people employed. Thank you, Madam Speaker.