Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We sort of have a multi-pronged approach when we work with communities on developing their infrastructure and how they acquire that infrastructure and how they construct that infrastructure. As the Member is aware, each community has an energy plan, a
capital plan, and we work with the Arctic Energy Alliance to try to marry those two plans together to come up with a good capital plan that’s sustainable over the long term for the community. In support of that, through the School of Community Government, we do offer communities training in the areas of asset maintenance to help them maintain the assets that they have, not only to an applicable code but to get the best value for costing that they can out of the assets that they do procure and they do construct. We also try to take the view, work with the community and their vision. If their vision is to have a sustainable community, which we encourage them to do, is to work over a long-term plan to achieve their vision. We work with communities to get the best value for the money that we do provide them and the money that they also raise themselves.
There’s nothing that’s going to happen tomorrow or the next day across the Territories. It will be a slow, steady, methodical march towards achieving their vision. As new supports are required from MACA, we will endeavour, through the School of Community Government, to provide those supports to the communities.