Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We, as a Legislature, through the Infrastructure subcommittee, spent about a year and a half or so looking at revamping the capital planning process and we’re in the midst of working through those changes. This is our second cycle now with the early review of the capital plan to address some of the issues Mr. Hawkins talked about in regard to contracts out the door in a timely manner to get them out on the ground at the start of building season. So this will be our second go-round now that’s before this House and, yes, we’ll be monitoring how it’s working such as are there needs to make adjustments and what adjustments are those. So we’re committed to that process.
I also just want to point out that we are in a unique two-year period with the recession on, the Economic Action Plan by the federal government where they’ve compressed the Build Canada and infrastructure funding from five years or so into two. We have a huge capital plan over two years going to be almost $700 million. We’ve found that there has been, because of the recession and downturn in the construction industry, a very good uptake on projects. In the past, a few short months ago, 18 months, two years ago we couldn’t get any bidders or often very few bidders, very high costs, and now we’re finding that there’s a lot more interest. So, yes, we’re going to be tracking the changes and we’re going to be looking to make sure that they’re working and, if not, what adjustments are required. Thank you.
