Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Member is being consistent since he has become a Member in this Assembly and raised the issues around the size of the bureaucracy and the hiring practices. I must give him that much. The fact is, when I first came in and started reviewing the request from departments for additional funding to help them become more involved and proactive in the pipeline work that was starting to happen, I told departments to go back to the drawing board and work together to come up with one position instead of everybody trying to deal with their initiatives on their own. So they try to be more coordinated within the government. We are starting to see that come through here.

The $500 million is federal funding, but it does still impact a large number of the communities that are directly impacted by this pipeline development. We still have a responsibility to do our part and to ensure that the initiatives that are happening out there or the potential impacts are recognized, and then we are a party at the table with discussions around how that $500 million will be implemented. I think it is, again, our responsibility to ensure that we are giving the best information possible when we are at those tables about where we think some of that funding should be spent. Recognizing we don't have the ultimate say in this, this is, again, a fund developed by the federal government and will be

implemented through a working group. An agreement has been worked out between all the groups. Ultimately, this is one of those ones that is tied to the go-ahead of a pipeline. If there is no process or no commitment to proceed with that pipeline, we would have to look at this position, then, and decide if, in fact, it was necessary to proceed depending on if it was a further delay or if the announcement was that they were not ready to proceed. This would be tied to an announcement of the pipeline proceeding. Thank you.