I know that my colleague has spoken in this House on a number of occasions that he has felt his riding in particular has not benefited as much as to say as some others. I think in fairness there may be some legitimacy to that, I do not know. The process that we have I think as I have said earlier at an earlier question while not perfect is certainly better than it was before, whereby the Premier writes to the communities and asks the communities along with MLAs for input as to what project they would like to see, what the priorities are that you place on them, one to five, one to ten, whatever you want. I would hope that the MLA was intimately involved in that process. I allocate budgets based on some formulas whether it is the social envelope or the resource envelope. The Ministers to their credit work to those budgets because we have got to meet the overall budget of this government. Capital dollars are allocated the same way. The process comes in from the communities into committee which my honourable colleague is one of the chairs of, I believe, or deputy chairs of. They examine it. They give us some recommendations what we do, back to Cabinet. We approve it, and it goes back into the House for ultimate approval.
What I have been doing in the last two years since I have had this portfolio is trying to track the expenditures by community, trying to demonstrate on a per capita basis how much money each community gets and try to do to the best of our ability. We do not always do it well. Let us be clear. Ensure that the system is fair and equitable. It is very difficult to do that on a consistent basis when you have as little money as we have because as my honourable colleague knows some of the Ministers have had to make extremely difficult decisions that have not been popular in some of the cancellation and delaying of projects.
I would like to think that the process is fair. I certainly believe that it is transparent. I defy anybody to show me where it is not. There may be occasionally an equitable argument out there, I would not deny that. Occasionally it may proceed that way, but certainly the objective of this government is to do exactly that, fair, equitable where possible and more importantly transparent in the process. Thank you.