Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, a number of factors, as I already laid out, have built to the size of the supplementary appropriation. For example, I'll just run down and give it a department-by-department breakdown of the capital portion of this supplementary appropriation. Municipal and Community Affairs is just over $3.7 million; Public Works, $7.8 million; Health and Social Services just over $7 million; Justice, $1.7 million; Education, Culture and Employment, over $13 million; Transportation, $5 million; Industry, Tourism and Investment, $600,000; and Environment and Natural Resources just under $400,000. So that's a substantial amount of carryover. But when you look at what's happening in our communities and the increase in the capital amount that we've, as a government, approved, has had an impact with what can get done in some of our communities. A number of factors that we have to look at government-wide is how do we get more involvement from our business sector in bidding on our capital projects, how do we have competition that would result in more favourable prices? If we can't get more favourable prices, then, yes, we're going to have to review the capital program as to the dollars that are there because our dollars are capped. The capital program cannot keep growing. We've highlighted approximately $75 million in projects. If those projects don't get off and are delayed and we continue to carry over projects, the more projects we carry over, the less money is going to be allocated for future capital programming and that's something we're going to have to deal with for sure in trying to get, as I stated earlier, some involvement from our business community as to taking up this work.
As well, further to that, as a government, we've had a number of departments who were downsized in the mid-'90s because of the government's fiscal situation at the time and reduced the capital program significantly so staff that are within departments that would normally be able to do some of the plans are not there any longer, and that's why you would see the increased use of outside sources of help being consultants in a number of areas to help departments get on with the work. Thank you, Madam Chair.