Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am sure that the Member is aware that the five-year capital plan put forth by this government is proposed expenditure. The only real expenditures are the ones in the existing year and that are approved by this Assembly on an annual basis through the budget process. The others are just forecasted expenditures.
In some cases we have multi-year projects and again, even in multi-year projects, the budget expenditures for those particular years have to be approved by this Assembly. The departments use the five-year capital plans as a guidance as to what the expenditures will be in the future. The department has been doing this and working with the Assembly and the communities in establishing the five-year capital plans.
In particular reference to Highway No. 3, this is a multi-year project that has been going on for a long time. As I said to the Member earlier, we did considerations of cuts to all highway expenditures. We did consider Highway No. 3, but we have nothing to implement on Highway No. 3 because of the profit value, the fact that it is an ongoing multi-year project. We did not do any cuts to Highway No. 3, but we did consider it. Thank you.