Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Public Works and Services and it gets back to my Member’s statement earlier where I spoke of the government spending an inordinate amount of capital dollars over the past three and a half years. It totals close to $450 million. I think it came at a good time for our economy, but people are left asking questions.
We’ve had, in the past, issues with carry-overs. We, in fact, changed our capital planning process to approve the capital plan in the fall of the year as opposed to the budget session in February/March. We’ve taken efforts to try to alleviate the carry-overs, and I’m left wondering why it is this year that the government, even though we are spending capital dollars, is carrying over $130 million, with $72 million of that capital plan contained in the Department of Transportation. I’d like to ask the Minister of Public Works to explain this amount of carry-overs. Thank you.