Mr. Chairman, the Non-Renewable Resource Development Strategy was a strategy we developed as a proposal to the federal government to rationalize our request for some $230 million, and a commitment on our part to spend $100 million. The federal government made it clear to us that we were not going to get a cheque for the whole amount, but they would make money available project by project.

Last fall, I met with Minister Nault. It was probably in late September, early October. He had approved the bridge. He agreed to the bridge money. Then it took a few months to finalize where the money was going to come from. That money came to us late last year, late in the last fiscal year.

Now we are moving into this fiscal year. We did not have the strategy approved in time, but we want to get on with some of these projects in order to prepare for the oil and gas activity. What we see here are items that came to us after the business planning-main estimates process, but yet they are items we feel are essential to get on with if we are going to have oil and gas development up and down the valley.