Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to say a few words here. I know the government here has been working pretty close with my communities and I was just thinking about Colville

Lake. It has been in the news and I have talked to the press about this with the water and sewer facilities in the school and the health centre. What I heard back was that it is a Municipal and Community Affairs issue and a community of Colville Lake issue, not they are working in regards to that infrastructure. I want to ensure members from Colville Lake that this issue here is being worked on. There are certainly other things that need to be included; putting in roads so the school could get their facility up and running. But what I understand from Public Works and Services is that all the materials are there at the school, all the equipment is there, but they don’t have any roads for hauling the water or taking the sewer out. Probably the same situation as the health centre.

I do want to say to the Minister that I hope there are provisions within this short lifespan of our government, now it is about six months, so we can get some movement on there to see where Colville Lake is in the sewer and water facility. I just want to say that and I also want to let the Minister know how much I appreciate, the communities appreciate the use of their resources in the community. When I was talking to the SAO in Tulita, he is very happy that the department released one of its staff people there from the community to help him out in a situation. If we didn’t have Municipal and Community Affairs staff going into our communities, it would have cost the hamlet quite a considerable amount of money to help them with some assessments on some of their infrastructure, so he wanted me to say how much they appreciate the staff being there for the small communities.

I look forward to going through the department’s budget and I want just leave it at that for now. I don’t have too much to say. I think the department is doing pretty good and I will leave it at that. I know the percentage that they give, funding, to the community is probably a good example as to how government should be devolving things over to the communities. Municipal and Community Affairs does put a lot of funding into the communities and I think that is a good example of how we should be operating our governments. Instead of keeping everything in Yellowknife, give it to the communities and the regions.

I just wanted to say that to the Minister. There are some good things happening with MACA and I look forward to having some discussions with him as we go through the detail. Mahsi.