Mr. Speaker, under the previous formula, Hay River should have been receiving $316,000. They were receiving $566,000. We are not sure how and why there was more money being provided over and above the Water and Sewer Subsidy Program. We have increased that amount from $316,000 to $366,000. Now they are on par with every other community in the Northwest Territories. There is a lot of other dollars that are being packaged up and provided, too.

Mr. Speaker, when we looked at providing money to the communities, one of our considerations was to lump all the money together and just give it as a block fund and say here are your dollars, this is for water and sewer, operations and maintenance and everything else. We wanted to make sure people understood how the budgets were flowing. We did not expect communities to put blinders on and say you have given a million extra dollars, but you took $200,000 here.

Mr. Speaker, these dollars are flexible. There are no restrictions on O and M dollars. You can use it wherever you want. There are costs for capital in the Water and Sewer Subsidy Program that has to be rolled out and put under the capital program, Mr. Speaker. I think it's a very open and transparent system we brought into play here and I think the communities, for the most part, are welcoming it. There are still some communities that have questions and we will be glad to continue working with them. Thank you.