Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, there has been a decision made within the government departments to be more energy efficient and also bringing down that cost in which we've decreased the amount of subsidy we have received in regards to fuel. I think all departments were directed that we have to find 50 percent by way of next year's allocation in house to cover those higher costs we've recovered for this year, and next year we have to be able to find ways of reducing our costs by 50 percent. That direction has been given and that's why it's reflected the way it is in regards to the budget; it's why you see such a decrease.

But again, we are working to find ways of being more aware of the cost of operating our housing, but also the cost of heating our units. Again, we are trying different things and working with the people in the industry to look at more energy-efficient appliances and trying to make our customers aware, in regards to our clients, and making them realize what it really costs for our units. So we are doing mail-outs to our tenants to make them more aware of the costs of those units.

In regards to the budget, one of the ways we've dealt with that is the way we construct houses. We used to do a lot of single home construction, now we're looking at multi-construction configuration so that we have a centralized heating system, a centralized boiler system and also that we're able to take advantage of a centralized mechanical system in a lot of these units which make these units more energy efficient. In the older systems in the single-built houses, the cost of operating those compared to the multi-constructed units, we have really seen the savings in that area. So as you can see from the budget, the majority of the houses that are going to be built in regards to the replacement of a lot of our public housing units will be multi-built construct configurations. So that's another way we're trying to deal with bringing down the high costs of the fuel costs in a lot of these communities. Thank you.