Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think it is pretty interesting that if you want anything done in this government and you do not have the resources within the municipal council, your best bet is to give it back to the government because they are going to get more funding to bring it up to a certain standard. Then you continue to operate it and try to maintain it with the minimum budget that you have. I think that sets a bad precedent.

If every hamlet knows this is the process you can use to get your infrastructure improved on, such as water treatment facilities, sewage lagoons and so on, every time you have a problem, drop the project and give it back to MACA. Let them bring it up to a certain standard. Let them pay for it and then take it over again after they do that. This is the precedent we are setting here. I think this is a bad precedent.

If anything, if we assist the communities, knowing they are having these problems, they did not have the trained people in place, they were not taking water samples, they were not living up to their water licence, and we did not intervene sooner, then we are in a situation similar to today, where it is costing us another $350,000. This is a cost driver that we have control over.

I think we as a government have to address this issue. We cannot continue to see the communities struggling to operate and maintain facilities with untrained people and unqualified processes, where you have responsibilities under your licences and then, at the end of the day, realize that Public Works comes to you and gives you a take-it-or-leave-it offer, where you have to either give it back to them or they are going to take it away from you. Again, I would like to ask the Minister, exactly what are you doing about changing the way we assist municipalities on running the water and sewage programs in our communities?