Thank you, Madam Chair. Just for clarification, from the department's perspective, as we indicated in the letter to the standing committee, this was a request by the hamlet that they be allowed to use capital funding that they would have had the opportunity to spend on one project and direct it to another project under O and M. As I indicated earlier, they would have received the funding through O and M over the next four years anyway through extraordinary funding because of the planning process that was in place for that particular shoreline erosion. Really all we are doing is responding to a request from them to be able to spend the $400,000 in one year rather than four years.

In relation to whether MACA treats some communities better than others, in this very same appropriation, supplementary, there is a request for $265,000 for water haul for Fort McPherson. So we don't treat some communities better than others. We respond to community needs as they are identified to us. That same request for the water haul comes under my department and I don't feel that one community is being treated any better than the other. I treat them all the same and I take all their concerns to the management board and it's a joint decision. It's not a decision on the part of the Minister. It's a joint decision. Thank you, Madam Chair.