Mr. Chairman, thanks for those comments from the Minister. I think, Mr. Chairman, this highlights a situation that we faced in all of our infrastructure in other departments. I think the government has been quite progressive. They have had an infrastructure subcommittee. I believe the deputy ministers tuned up that process quite a bit. We also, as a House, have implemented a new process for our capital budget. That has allowed that implementation.
I am wondering, it is different for the Housing Corporation, I understand. I appreciate this opportunity to discuss this now, but my understanding is that we don’t actually approve this budget until perhaps the winter session because it is somehow related to O and M.
I suppose this is a convoluted way of saying it would be great if we could begin negotiation now with the sort of okay of the House on this budget so that we don’t have these construction delays and higher costs during the 2011-12 season. Is the Minister working on this? Is there any solution to this dilemma in sight that we could actually allow negotiations to...
Again, horribly important here to get our local businesses and people employed. They sometimes take longer to negotiate. We are talking capacity building and another very important and identified role of this government. Is there potential? Is the Minister thinking about how we can tune up this approval process and budgeting process to allow that early discussion and negotiation to happen? Thank you.