Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I too would like to ask questions to the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs and it’s regarding operations and maintenance funding.

Mr. Speaker, I, like several of my colleagues, have had the benefit of serving on a council for at least one term and understand how important MACA is to the communities and certainly the funding of their operations. Undoubtedly, I know other Members realize that too. One of the problems we’ve always had, I remember from serving on council, is understanding the formula and having an appreciation for the formula that’s distributed to communities. Yellowknife, being one of the largest communities in the Northwest Territories -- the largest, by the way -- there was always the concern of proportional or a respectable fair share of the revenues.

Mr. Speaker, the Minister of MACA has given me a briefing note to say that there was going to be a formula update. My question to the MACA Minister is: has there been a new O and M funding formula update done and have you included people from the municipalities on the discussion and development of this formula? Thank you.