Thank you, Madam Chair. In reviewing the water and sewer subsidy program, and reducing expenditures in that area, the department looked at various communities in the Northwest Territories and attempted to come up with some benchmarks as to what is an efficiently run system and compared how other communities are delivering their service, and estimated, based on that analysis, what budget they felt a community would require to operate and maintain the water and sewer system. On
the basis of that, they came up with allocations which would be given to communities by way of block funding under the reformed water and sewer services policy.
It might be of interest to the Member that of the communities that have largely piped water and sewer services, Inuvik was one of the communities that was referred to as one of the more efficient communities. Thank you, Madam Chair.