Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I think we just have to look back a couple of years at an incident that is very similar in the nature of what happened and it did, as well, cause an uproar in a number of other communities. When the young offenders' facilities were moved from their existing location, they were identified in the capital plan and were to be possibly rebuilt in Hay River. At that point a decision was made by the department to proceed on a different lateral and saw the facilities being split and moved to other locations. The young offenders ended up being part of the North Slave Correctional Centre as we have it now and the female section went up to Inuvik. So there's an example of even a larger scale project that was established in the books and the facility was existing in the community of Hay River at the time, but the department had changed because of other factors and came back. Ultimately, it has to get approved by the Assembly. So there's an example of some of the changes that occur in the capital plan process.

Once a project has been identified for change or a change has been made at the Cabinet/FMB table, then we will notify the Members. The proposal now has been adopted at the first level, but the money hasn't changed. The money is still in the books, identified as it was and that is why you find it here in the supplementary appropriation that lays out the plan for this year and future years if accepted by the Assembly. So there are examples of how projects do change from one community to another with the departments that are in charge of them having changed their plan and presenting it to Cabinet and then to the Assembly. So there is an example of how that can happen.

If you're the Member representing that community, it's not a very good thing to find that out and know that it was on the books and you can tell people in your community for a number of years that this project is coming and then the year when it's about to come it doesn't happen. Things don't turn out very well and I think most Members at one point or another probably felt a bit of that, whether it's a delay in the capital program in dust control because there's not enough money or it's delayed for another year. There are many examples of that, but notification ultimately comes back to this House for approval if we're going to move dollars from one project to another project, and that's what we're doing here. Thank you.