Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in regards to notice of the cuts, and so forth, I just want to go back and say that I am told by the department that the municipal financial review was done with the NWTAM, and the current president was the president during that review and he was very much involved with it.
The review was to look at the tax-based municipalities and their funding arrangement. The funding arrangement is based on a number of different factors, like the operations and maintenance, the capital and so forth. There were implications at that time, because the financial review was not done in time, that it was going to be delayed. The agreement was to roll-over the existing funding that was established in the previous years to allow it to happen for one more year, subject to possible cuts.
I know that the announcement actually came in the House here when I was asked about it. We in the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs are still dealing with how we are going to do it. Perhaps there should be more notice. I said that I will give you more notice, during the committee hearings and in the House. That is what I intend to do. Thank you.