Mr. Chairman, we are responding from communities being requested to respond to the emergencies on highways. I believe the Member for Hay River has voiced this more than once, where ambulances from Hay River have had to respond to emergencies on the highways, and the same situation here in Yellowknife. So that is why we are doing this, to allow for communities to have the proper equipment to respond to emergencies on the highways.

There is no other program at this point, and because the federal government does have a funding program for emergency measures, we are able to obtain some federal funding in this manner towards this.