Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The air photography and mapping budget is a basic information that the department does use for its land development program and road construction projects, but it is also used by other departments in government and others who wish to access the information that is available in the department for doing

infrastructure construction work in communities. The department takes the air photo and when used in combination with legal survey work that is done, it is of sufficient quality that preliminary engineering work can be done, preliminary estimating, cost estimating, can be done. Road alignments and other types of preliminary engineering work can be taken from the use of the air photos used in combination with the legal survey work that the department also does. When all of that budget is consolidated in one amount, it looks like a large amount. If that amount was to be distributed across all of the capital projects that are done by the government and others that make use of that information, it would appear to be a small amount on a per project basis. Thank you, Mr. Chair.