Thank you, Mr. Speaker. While my honourable colleague brought to my attention about a year ago that perhaps we should be considering new ways in which to amortize our capital projects as we have all known, there was going to be some difficulties in balancing the budget. It was clearly going to be a requirement to take some money out of the capital allocation of dollars. In fact, over the last two years we have gone from about $180 million on an annual basis to somewhere around $130 million. So, in fact, we have had about $100 million less capital dollars to build public infrastructure, and that is a significant amount of dollars, Mr. Speaker.
We have been looking for over a year, for some creative, visionary alternatives to ensure that the need for public infrastructure whether it is hospitals, roads or bridges can continue at the level in which we have done in the past. Hence the reason for my desire to conclude a public/private partnership policy and also a need for changes within the Finance Administration Act, that I will be introducing later on today. Thank you.