Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to present Supplementary Appropriation No. 3, 2008-2009. This document outlines additional appropriations of $17.833 million for operation expenditures and $6 million for capital investment expenditures in the 2008-2009 fiscal year.

Major items for operation expenditures include:

1. $5.1 million for costs associated with

Northwest Territories residents receiving hospital and physician services outside of the Northwest Territories;

2. $2.8 million for the increased costs associated

with the new contractor between the Government of the Northwest Territories and NWT physicians;

3. $1.6 million for increased costs associated with

children in residential care outside the Northwest Territories;

4. $1.2 million for increased costs associated with

the Territorial Power Subsidy Program.

The major item for capital investment expenditures is the $3 million to advance construction of an all-weather road from Tuktoyaktuk to gravel source 177, a Building Canada Plan project.

Mr. Chairman, I am prepared to review the details of the supplementary appropriation document. Thank you.