Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I, as well, have a concern with the corporate capital planning process that this government is now using, more in the area of planning and how projects would fit into that capital planning process. Previous to that, we used to, as Members, be informed on the five-year government capital plan and we would take that to our constituencies and meet with the leaders in our communities to discuss the importance of those initiatives in our communities. Mr. Speaker, those days seem to be gone. Now we have a letter that gets sent out to communities saying this is what the plan is, but little discussion after that. In fact, when you take the document that we were going over this session, the main estimates, in that document there is a capital acquisition plan that lays out a five-year plan. Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, what we find from time to time is that we have projects that seem to just pop up in the plan without any prior discussion or knowledge from Members, without substantiation on the purposes of the new expenditures and how they've managed to leapfrog the other initiatives that have been laid out, and discussed and put into place with information that can be debated and we can carry back to our communities.
Mr. Speaker, this government plans on a five-year basis, as we know. But it's a 20-year cycle that the government uses to substantiate replacement of buildings and so on. We know when a new building is built that there is a 40-year life expectancy and somewhere in there, 20 years or so, will be a fairly significant retrofit. But we don't seem to see that anymore. We see a lot of changes happening in meetings and behind closed doors and we get to find out about it after a news release or after the department has gone through the process of planning with committee. So we want to know if, in fact, this new plan that they've established is even going to be followed. Even as unclear as it is, we don't see that happening and we want to know why that is and if they are going to follow something that all residents of the territories can know that this government can be accountable on. Thank you.
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