We’re doing a number of things as a department. Some of the comments made by the Member, however, fall outside of our

responsibility. The $420 million anticipated to affect communities is not infrastructure that we’re in charge of. However, we do work with communities, and we’ve started to work with all the communities to start looking at energy and all issues around energy and energy change and climate change. We have hired an energy management coordinator to help the communities move forward on that issue, and we’ve identified dollars. One of the biggest things we can do at this point is to start to identify resources to have better planning done and better planning developed.

I’ve already indicated to the Member that we have identified some money through the Building Canada program that would work toward research. This would be developed along with the Department of Transportation. We’d look at different issues along the lines of adaptation and also research.

Roads are a big issue, both for Transportation and for us in the area of community roads. We do contribute $50,000 to the Arctic Energy Alliance, and we also contribute another $150,000 for the position I mentioned earlier.

We do a lot of initiatives together with other departments, especially the Department of Transportation, to pilot and test new ways to deal with climate change.

We are renegotiating the gas tax shortly. One of the areas we intend to include in part of our negotiations is the ability to use these resources in the area of climate change adaptation. There are quite a few things we’re working on and working toward bringing forward in the area of climate change and adaptation.