Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister responsible for Public Works and Services, regarding the operations agreements between the Department of Public Works and Services and hamlets to run the water and sewage programs in our communities.

I would like to ask the Minister, is he aware of the increases that are taking place in those operation agreements by way of increases with regard to administration costs of those agreements? Previously the agreements signed in the communities of Fort McPherson, Aklavik and so on had a 9 percent administration...