Thank you, Mr. Chair. I also have raised this and I raise it again here. I recognize that we’re within the general guidelines of other jurisdictions and so on, but the large capital projects don’t seem to fall into that formula of coming up with a percentage. Those are mostly operational dollars. We know that we have, relatively, a very high cost for infrastructure compared to other jurisdictions.

Another perspective on this is that because we have a modest size of population and availability of these very specialized talents, we often have to contract outside of the Northwest Territories for these services, whereas most jurisdictions are able to find that sort of expertise in house, if you will, Mr. Chair.

These are important perspectives, and I think they are relevant here. We have a similar complexity of data to manage and so on, as we learned from our briefing, as other jurisdictions, but we have much smaller numbers and sample sizes of things to deal with. This is all by way of stressing that I’m looking for some real critical assessments of what we spend on the technology/data management end of things. I’ve raised with the staff, as well as with the Minister, that I’m very interested in their input on where efficiencies can be had and so on.

Again, we’re at 4.5 percent; we’re sort of in the ballpark for operations, but I would bet that our infrastructure costs are much greater than other jurisdictions, and we’re sending our dollars away from the Northwest Territories to deal with this stuff. That’s why it’s quite a serious financial issue. I’d welcome any additional comments the Minister might have on these perspectives.