Another issue I have a problem with especially in regards to capital, is that we seem to put the onus on communities that any assets that this government transferred to the community, it is up to them to repair it, fix it. If it breaks down, that is your problem.

I think this government has to realize that a lot of these assets that we did transfer to communities are going to have to be replaced. But with the existing dollars that they get, you cannot replace a water treatment plant. You cannot replace a major piece of infrastructure like a utilidor system with the existing dollars that they have. But as government departments, we know that every time the government department has an issue, it is either a forced growth issue or basically, well, because of emergency circumstances where we have a culvert collapse or basically a bunch of pilings are falling down around a building. We find funds for those things, because they are so-called emergencies.

I think there has to be some sort of capital funding project for communities to access similar to the question I raised today, shoreline erosion in the community. Shoreline erosion should not be the responsibility of the community. If anything, it should be a government obligation to ensure we protect communities by emergency funding resources so that they are treated just like any other government department. I think, for myself, it is something that I feel quite strongly about, especially communities that have systems that basically have to be replaced.

I use Fort McPherson for instance. They have a water utilidor system. Inuvik had a utilidor system. There is a major capital influx to change that system in regards to capital dollars from this government. But yet, for the communities that have utilidor systems, now it is their obligation to find those capital dollars.

Another example is water treatment plants. We had five water treatment plants replaced. Thankfully, MACA hung onto it and did it as a project for the bulk of those projects, so they delivered. But again, that is the role government has to retain and play in regards to capital expenditures in communities to ensure there are emergency funds or disaster relief in regards to forest fires, like I mentioned, major floods. We see it every other year in most of our communities. It is a capital cost associated with that, but we can’t leave the communities hanging there without having assurance from the government that there are going to be emergency situations where this government will come in to help. I would just like to know, under disaster relief or whatever we want to call it, that capital dollars are going to be there when those incidents happen and it won’t come out of the municipalities’ pocket. It will come out of the government’s pocket. Thank you.