I am not sure really that I heard the key words as to what the strategy with the federal government is, but I’ll let that go.
My issue with the capital carry-overs is basically that money is not being used from year to year. Although they’re committed and on the books, it isn’t being used. My assumption is, then, that half of that is borrowed money that’s not real debt, because the money is not actually being spent. I just have some sort of issue with half the money comes from surplus and half the money comes from the debt wall, but the money is not being spent so it’s in fact not a real debt. My solution for that, I
believe, is to reduce all capital projects that are not being done -- they’re being carried over by 10 percent -- and reuse that money for projects that are ready to go.
With that, I’d like to ask the government if this government has an actual strategy on how they approach barge communities or winter road communities. The timing on the delivery of those materials is very essential and it feels like to me, in the one barge community that I have of Lutselk’e, that the barge came and went and a bunch of things that I’ve been asking for, people that have wanted work done on houses and so on, nothing happened, no materials arrived. Those people are told, by virtue of not having any materials arrive in the community, that nothing will happen this year. I’d like to know if this government has an actual strategy that works on communities that are using barges and communities that are using winter roads. But winter roads are not really my issue. I’m more concerned about barging communities.