Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to remind the Members: the Main Street Chipsealing Program was only for non-tax-based communities. It wasn’t for all communities. I think the motion makes it clear that we want to work with communities to ensure this program is there, that there’s an option they can look at.

My argument to begin with is that the expertise, the surveys, the studies — all that reporting — has already been done by MACA. MACA has that expertise in-house, and I don’t think we should lose that, because the small communities don’t have the capacity to deal with it. If they want to hire engineers and do surveys and everything else, there’s a cost there that they can save on. I think that someone who represents small communities…. This motion is for the smaller communities. It’s got nothing to do with the larger centres. The motion is clear. The Main Street Chipsealing Program is for non-tax-based communities, which came out of a motion of a non-tax-based committee that was looking at trying to find ways to improve the quality of life in communities. All this does is force MACA and the communities to work out a way to reinstate this program so the communities have that option to look at main street chipsealing, but also take advantage of MACA’s expertise in this area.