Yes, Mr. Speaker, many people will take that money. Mr. Speaker, it is an ongoing problem from past governments and we seem to have gotten into the habit that I consider to be a bad one. We are spending before we know exactly what the map is going to look like.
A couple of examples, Mr. Speaker. The Cuff report is coming out near the end of this month, days after the Social Agenda Conference. We have an Intergovernmental Forum Secretariat that is looking at regional reorganization and what the government will look like after self-government starts to take hold in the Northwest Territories. On the other hand, we already have departments implementing some of their own plans.
Mr. Speaker, another example. Yesterday, during committee of the whole review, there was discussion on some expenditures put forward by this government that were not supplementary. One is in the area of transportation, and it referred to strategy 7 in the Non-Renewable Resource Development Strategy, Mr. Speaker. It was on airport planning and development.
Mr. Speaker, I had an opportunity last night to go through the Non-Renewable Resource Development Strategy. It is quite specific. It identifies what strategy 7 is. Mr. Speaker, strategy 7 is strictly highways. It lists the highways up and down the valley and says we are going to do work on those highways and prepare for the development of the Northwest Territories.
There are a number of other issues that were identified under the Non-Renewable Resource Development Strategy as reasons for expenditures. Mr. Speaker, that strategy has not been fully adopted. It was shopped to the federal government and we have maybe one percent of a down payment, as it was called, in this past winter's session.