Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I had opportunity to discuss this issue with the department after the Member's questions in the House. It is clear that some communities chose to switch priorities, whereby MACA has a funding program, capital program for some type of facilities and not for the other, so the community did switch priorities and used the funding for a swimming pool rather than for an arena.
We do not have, at the present, a capital planning process whereby we would fund swimming pools. Swimming pools were cut off in the days of the cutbacks, as I said, and it was never really re-established into the capital plan. As we all know, the new corporate capital planning process puts recreation facilities quite a ways down the scale in the line of priorities. Swimming pools are not even mentioned at this stage.
What the department did do with Fort Providence is that there was $50,000 that had not been spent at this point, which was originally for the arena, I believe. The community had not spent it yet and it was held over from the year before. It is still earmarked for that particular facility, but the department did give the community the option of using it towards the swimming pool if they wished. I have not heard anything back from the community on this at all. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.