Mr. Chairman, the $500,000 is money that was budgeted to fund the Northern Employment Support Program as part of the Maximizing Northern Employment initiatives. That money was needed in order to enable us to get on with providing employment. It is essential to do that early in the year to maximize the benefits, and second is to take advantage of the fact that many people were returning from university and college in the spring. That was the $500,000.

The $1,237,000 is to fund the cleanup of an environmental contamination at the trades complex. This one goes back to 1996, when a fuel tank was taken out of the ground at the Thebacha Campus and it was found that the ground around that tank was saturated by leaking fuel. There were tests done over the years and it was found that there was a fair bit of seepage of the fuel in the ground at Fort Smith. The decision was made in early April that we had to contain the contamination and begin the clean-up process.

Again, that was an item that was brought to our attention. It is fairly urgent that we get on with it. The longer we leave it, the more it spreads. Plus, it could contaminate the water sources. That one was fairly urgent to deal with as an environmental cleanup. Thank you.