Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in terms of new finances from Ottawa in the last couple of weeks, we keep hearing a message of excitement and interest in the potential we have in the North. We have not heard anything specific in terms of that kind of investment. I might say the one piece of information we received a few days ago has to do with the physical infrastructure money the federal government has made available, roughly $2.1 billion.

Of that amount of money, Mr. Speaker, we did get a preliminary indication from the president of the Treasury Board indicating what the Northwest Territories share would be. Based on that, Mr. Speaker, it was based on a combination of population, with half of the money distributed on population and the other half distributed based on unemployment levels.

I have written a letter back seeking clarification on a number of areas, but using the scenario that the president of the treasury board presented, that would give us roughly $4 million to $4.5 million, which is not much out of the $2.1 billion infrastructure money. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.