Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In regard to the decision to go forth, you mentioned that supplementary appropriations are used when there is a major emergency. We know that there is an infrastructure which may have been destroyed in a fire. Basically we know that there has been a major natural emergency such as a forest fire and yet the whole idea of using special warrants for this type of activity, because I believe that we have the capital planning process in place to ensure we have a fair system so all communities could have an opportunity to develop community infrastructure and improve the community facilities.

We have just approved a program, the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs has restructured the agreements we have with municipalities in ensuring that it is fair that the resources that you do get are there to ensure that you have adequate funding to run your programs and services.

By setting this precedent, what does that tell the other communities who are trying to maintain their programs and services with those dollars to improve or upkeep or look at maintaining the community infrastructure such as roads or buildings and utilidors and yet a particular community can bypass the whole planning process, budgets, looking at internal expenditures.

For years we were told that communities have been saying they need more dollars in the Granular Revolving Fund. We need more money to improve the infrastructure in communities, especially roads, and now we find out that we have 26 small communities that need to improve their roads. They have also been affected or damaged by development or infrastructure and traffic moving back and forth. Yet they are told that they have to make do with what they have, that there are not any dollars for new initiatives.

Here we go. We find a new initiative taking place through a supplementary appropriation which was not part of the planning process.

I would like to ask the Minister, what are we doing to ensure communities have the comfort and also have the support of the department to ensure that they do not have to follow the rules? That there are ways of getting around, breaking the rules, spend as many dollars as you want and we will take care of you. What is there to ensure that the communities have the ability to spend the amount of money that they get without finding new ways for certain communities to get extra funding that other communities do not have access to?

I would like to ask the Minister, why is it that there is special emphasis put here for the community of Tuktoyaktuk? Why have other communities not had that same opportunity where they may have a similar problem with their infrastructure?