Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yesterday, when we concluded, I was trying to get your attention but you recognized the honourable Member who called progress. I wasn't concluded with this department, especially the educational development section. If I may, Mr. Chairman, I would like to get to it.
This is concerning an item which states: "To reduce funding in the Fort Simpson Bompas elementary school project to finance the GNWT's share of costs associated with the Canada/NWT infrastructure agreement." The funding for this elementary school in Fort Simpson has been reduced by $103,000. I wanted to ask a couple of questions about that.
Mr. Chairman, this elementary school has been totally renovated and the project is still ongoing. It is not known at the present time what the complete costs of the project are yet because they are still working on it. While construction is still going on, $103,000 has been eliminated from the total project. I was wondering why that happened. Usually when a project is completed and there is a surplus left over, that's what is used to carry over to other projects and so forth. This project is still going on, yet a substantial amount of funding has been reduced. I was wondering if the Minister could give me some information on that: how much the total project is at the present time; how much money is left to complete the project; and, why was $103,000 taken away from a project that's not completed yet? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.