I’d like to thank the Minister for that. Obviously there’s buy-in from this side of the House too, because we have approved budgets where there are new positions specifically for addressing projects and trying to get them started and finished. So I will be watching that closely. I do applaud the government’s efforts in that regard so far. It’s still early on, so we’ll see where that takes us.
Another item that I’d like to just mention, you know, the government has also done a fairly good job at trying to get infrastructure money from the federal government, but I don’t know if we’re doing enough. I think there’s more of an effort that should be made with the federal government in trying to secure especially large-scale infrastructure projects and money for them here in the Northwest Territories. I mentioned in the Yukon the Carmacks expansion on the hydro facility there. That’s about $71 million. The fact that we should be aggressively pursuing the federal government for any infrastructure money that’s out there and we should be doing that to the best of our ability each and every day. That’s why I had questions for the Premier yesterday about federal engagement. I think more so now than ever before it’s so important that any dollars that are out there that we can secure for infrastructure, we get out there and get at it. I know the government’s doing a good job at trying to do that, but I really think that we need to put a concerted effort forward; a comprehensive and coordinated approach would be best and I’d like to see that happen.
I think that was about all I had. I agreed with some of the other comments that I won’t go over, some of the ground that other Members have touched on. I appreciated their comments as well.