Thank you, colleagues. I will not be challenging the agreement to the appropriation requested. Under this category, I have a question and I think it belongs under directorate and it is a policy matter. I am referring, Mr. Chairman, to the department's business plan. Under strategies on page 7-10, a discussion about the energy utilities subsidies task team. In that area, Mr. Chairman, is a description of a two-year project, over this current year and the next, for about $400,000 to look at ways the GNWT could save money through the reduction and consumption of energy and utility services, and from restructuring of energy and utility subsidy programs.
It is quite a large amount of money, $400,000, with no indication, at least in the business plan, that there is going to be any technical or mechanical investment in actual energy reduction systems. This is basically planning. I wanted to ask the department, how is the planning going? I take it now that it is mid-term, coming up into a fairly large expenditure year. What kind of information and what kind of plans are starting to take shape for looking at ways to save money on energy? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.