Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to embark on a subject which may take a little time or it could take a lot of time during this session. My questions are for the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. It has to do with the new formula for arriving at funding for municipalities, known to us now as the New Deal. Some communities are starting to analyze these numbers and calculate these out and they are starting to think that maybe the New Deal is not as good as we might have thought initially.

Mr. Speaker, one of the areas that my community of Hay River, our community of Hay River, has been cut back in is in the area of support for the subsidization of water and sewer delivery services. That reduction is very close to $200,000. So just to start off, Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the Minister why was that support to the community of Hay River reduced by $200,000?