Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The way the program is structured and the information that was sent out to the communities was that this program was designed to address the particular needs of small communities. Funding has been set aside for small capital projects and it specifically indicates which communities don’t qualify under this. The list, I’ll repeat again, is Yellowknife, Inuvik, Behchoko, Fort Smith, Hay River and Fort Simpson. So that’s the program as it now stands.
In our government, if there is an interest to discuss policy decisions, that’s something that we have to
be prepared to entertain, but the program as it’s now structured is clear. The document that was sent out is clear. It hasn’t been changed.
The Minister may want to add further to this, but I think the intention is that if there’s an interest in somehow reviewing this to make it as applicable as it should be, that the Minister has indicated he’s prepared to entertain that kind of discussion. At this point this policy is clear and it was sent out with the 14 criteria that are very specific.
I’ll ask, Mr. Chairman, if maybe the Minister wanted to elaborate a bit further on this issue. Thank you.