Thank you, Madam Chairperson. The whole role of the question I am asking is because for a number of years, looking at the statistics, Aklavik has been underfunded, especially where it comes to funds to develop roads. The

things I am talking about are if they had the monies to basically do the right improvements to the drainage system and upgrading their wharf around the edges regarding the corrosion around the rivers. Right now, the community has been trying to get the gravel stock piled in the community. In case of an emergency they know that if they have the gravel on site and if they had to move materials to protect a certain facility, it is there in the community. Right now, they do not have that. There is no money in the budget. There has not been any money for years. One of the big problems Aklavik is having is that they do not have the money for putting pads down to put pilings on for the local person to be attracted to get these housing units. You have to be in a pretty high wage bracket because you have to pay these costs. If planning was done right and the resources were there in the community to ensure that there is some sort of a protected measure in place, they know the water in the community will not be as drastic if they had some sort of a plan or a protected measure to ensure that there will be adequate run off. If there was a culvert where the flow could have went through versus blocking off the water where it will back up into the community, everybody then, is affected.

These plans were not done years ago in regard to the planning, not having the adequate resources when a lot of these facilities were constructed. Basically, you are stuck with trying to look at alternative measures to compile the emergency versus being proactive and making sure that it is built into the community and having the resources there to carry out these different functions of making sure your drainage system is right. You have enough distance between the low water level versus the high rate. You are talking 300 feet in some cases which is how fast the water will rise at any one time. You have to take that into consideration. The cost to this government in the long term of losing the water facility or the school or even the airport facility is a cost not only to the people, but to this government who have to pick up that cost. I am saying that knowingly, these incidents do happen and we should be finding ways of protecting the infrastructure in the communities for the government itself. Those assets belong to this government which we are paying for. To replace those assets, it is going to be a lot more than what is there right now.