Mr. Chair, I just wanted to ask the Minister, because of the huge amount of carry-over that we are faced with, do we have the support mechanisms in place? As the Minister says, he’s confident that these projects will be completed in our communities. As you know, some of these projects in our communities are our economic lifelines to training and jobs and creating employment in some of our smaller communities that we represent. We’re doing pretty good, but some of these projects have been on the books and

not yet been initiated to the way we think they should be initiated in our communities, and people are looking forward to them.

With the policies that we have and the structures and the support we have because of the other areas that we want to concentrate on, the bigger projects, I want to know that we have the mechanisms to feel confident with what the Minister is saying, that these projects would get off the ground and get started in our communities, especially for the small communities that don’t have the all-season weather roads to go and it’s okay. For some of the smaller ones we have the barge, or the sealift, or flying in with the aircrafts, and that adds cost to the project.

I want to ask the Minister, as the government as a whole, this huge carry-over, that we can feel confident going back to our regions and say these projects will get done, these projects will be completed and that we won’t have much of a carry-over next year.

I understand that there was a lot of work being done, and for me this number is quite huge in terms of carry-over. It may not be for the government, but for me in my communities it certainly helps us in our economic stimulus activity in our communities.