We provided the Members information over a four year period both by constituency and by community to give Members a sense of the money that was spent. We managed to get the housing dollars as well as the money contributed by MACA, which makes for a significant amount of money that we are spreading across the North.

We want to be very careful as we look at per capita. It’s one of the issues we always take exception to when we deal with the federal government when they want to allocate the money that they have on a per capita basis, because invariably, because of the small size of our population, we get a very small amount of money. We have been arguing for years for a base plus approach to funding arrangements. It’s the same approach that MACA used or is using when they allocate money to the communities. They’ve agreed to a formula where there is a base, I believe, of about $600,000, then plus, based on the size of your population, which recognizes that there are larger communities.

So there are ways for us to look at how capital is allocated. But I can tell you from my own experience, per capita, for us, is going to be a process that’s not going to be fair. We know right off the top that Yellowknife and all the large communities would get by far the vast amount of capital.