Thank you, Madam Chair. The committee had a chance to review the draft main estimates for this department and there were some of the areas where the committee had some concerns. In property assessments, the committee did come forward making a case for $495,000 to put three new assessors' positions in place to get caught up on a backlog of assessments. The committee had a hard time to justify this extra money based on the case that MACA put forward. There were a lot of uncertainties from the committee's point of view where we get good value for our dollar, although MACA did make the case that we could possibly recognize $3 million to $4 million per year if we did catch up on the backlog on property assessments in cases from backlogs. There was a lot of concern from committee on this issue. Also, the fact that the committee had some doubt as to whether the department would even be successful in recruiting three new full-time assessors. There seems to be some concerns about how many property assessors are out there and whether we might

not be better off getting this work done by the private sector. I would put a question to the Minister on the availability of assessors. How does the department think they would be in recruiting three full-time assessors? Thank you, Madam Chair.