Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I want to point out to the Member that I certainly appreciate the time and effort the Member, along with a couple of the other Members, have taken to point out that there is a need and there are requirements in small communities for recreation projects. We have taken that under advisement. The Member can be assured that we will roll out and he can see what projects have been moved forward. I personally am not in a position to pick and choose projects. The end of March or early April, he will know what projects are going into which communities or at least what the criteria will be.

As to the gas tax, the gas tax is not tied to any particular methodology or whether it is consumption or any other form. Initially, that is what the government was looking at. The federal government was looking at tying it to public transit use or gas consumption. There was a lot of concern over that from my part, of course, because it would not leave us in a very good situation. The federal government has moved away from that. They are now referring to the federal gas tax as the federal gas tax equivalent, for the most part. We know now what the amount is going to be for the NWT. That was announced in the budget speech. It is $37.5 million starting this year, providing we can get an agreement this year. This is as much information as we have up to now. We know how much the total amounts are going to be, and we know how much it is going to be for every year over the next five years. It is going to be $4.5 million this year, $4.5 million next year, $6 million the year after, $7.5 million the year after, and then $15 million on a continual basis. So there is really no decision. We haven't signed an agreement with the federal government. We haven't really had a chance to negotiate what the criteria is and how it is going to be devolved to the communities. We wanted to have that discussion also with the NWT Association of Communities so that we have some consensus on how we are going to move forward and what we are going to negotiate.