Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the financial difficulty with the municipalities has been ongoing for as long as municipal governments have been there. Some municipalities are doing good and have always done good. Some have had troubles in the past for one reason or another and were able to recover their debt through a debt recovery plan. From time to time, for different reasons, different communities come forward. Therefore, we step in and we help them out.
With regard to your question about whether some of these communities are in financial difficulty on an ongoing basis, I would have to say I do not think so. I think the intention of the municipalities is that if they do get into a deficit situation and ask for help, we step in through the department's assistance and help them try to meet the debt recovery plan. In many cases, municipalities are successful and do get out of debt. They run a tight ship. It moves around. Sometimes it is one community and sometimes it is another. If we understand and identify what the problems are, hopefully we will not have anymore municipalities in debt. Again, in the financial review, we like to look at it. We are going to work with the municipalities to see what the problems are and perhaps maybe address them at that time. Thank you.