Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, a number of hours ago when I spoke to the general comments on the department, there was some concern of the impact of reductions on municipalities that do a lot of planning in advance and put things into action. Later on, the department unfortunately had to pass down some reductions. It has been a concern. It was raised at the NWTAM annual general meeting. It was also brought to the attention of the committee that they wanted something done with that.
With that, Mr. Chairman, the committee agreed that we needed to do something to try to help them prepare for and help them in their planning. Mr. Chairman, I have a motion.