Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to make a few comments. It’s obviously quite alarming that we’re carrying over $138 million for infrastructure projects. Although the Minister states representing 26 percent of the 2010-2011 revised capital plan, that’s a lower percentage than in previous fiscal years, which averaged around 33 percent. More alarming for me is the amount of capital projects within the Department of Transportation that have been carried over. That’s around $72 million.
I’d like to ask the Minister if there are historical numbers of percentage of carry-overs by department. I think having that many projects carried over is troubling. If you look through the detail, there’s every excuse under the sun why some of these projects haven’t been concluded. In the backdrop to everything is a bridge that we’re trying to get constructed across the Mackenzie River. Has that project taken away the department’s staff and attention to getting some of these other capital projects concluded? I think that’s a legitimate concern and a legitimate question that I’d like to have answered.