Thank you, Madam Chair. Learning from previous experiences, such as the subdivision development in Inuvik and other areas where funds were spent to develop these subdivisions, because of the turn in the economy or whatever, they just could not sell those lots. Someone got stuck holding the bag. At the end of the day, it's usually the taxpayers who have to offset that debt or this government, through MACA, has to come in and bail them out. I think that's something we should take a look at here. It's great to build subdivisions but, at the end of the day, if you cannot sell those properties and try to recoup your dollars, someone is going to get stuck holding the bag. We're talking about cutting $150 million and this is probably one of the largest expenditure items in this budget; in the range of $12 million.
So I think that should also be taken into consideration, that you don't take the risk that the department has done in other areas. If you're going to do it with the limited resources we have, we should seriously consider holding back on large expenditures such as these ones until we get out of this financial mess that we're in.
(Microphone turned off) ... around the North, of developing subdivisions with the idea such as being able to sell these properties for residential use. All it takes is a change in the economy and we're stuck holding the bag with a deficit of $150 million. We should seriously look at finding better uses for these revenues.