Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Member wanted to make something quite clear and so do I. I never made the comment that Members didn’t care about the communities. I don’t think I’m that stupid, to be quite honest with you. What I said, and the Member talks about the 14

years that he’s been here, and he’s been able to see the devolution of authority to the communities and he’s able to see the past history where a lot of the small community projects got into the corporate plan and they were basically just bumped and bumped and bumped each year when other emergencies come up. So I just wanted to make sure we clarified that. I’m still very confident in the communities’ ability and I think that was my point to deliver the product.

I’m not quite sure about the extraordinary funding. I’m really not sure how to respond to that. I mean, the bulk of MACA’s money, infrastructure money, pretty well all of it goes to the communities. If things happen in the communities where they need help, if something happens, a flood, a disaster, then we will assist those communities any way we possibly can. If it means coming to this Legislative Assembly for extraordinary funding, that’s something we’d consider as the need arises. If it means going after the federal government to see what pots of money they have there to assist the communities to deal with the situation, then we’ll do that too. As far as a pot of extraordinary funding, I don’t think that it’s in the budgetary process right now. I suppose if it was the will of this Assembly, then we would have to consider that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.