Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Obviously, in my previous work when I commend the department on their sport, recreation and youth, they are doing a good job in there. The initiatives that I have seen over the last couple of years working there, and the more money that is being put towards it, is truly an investment into our future generations and into our communities, healthier and safer communities. I do see the results time and time again in the communities and by e-mails and correspondence with the youth that I used to work with.

One concern that I do have, though, is in… There are community deficits. I have spoken in the past on how we can deal with those. Sometimes it is just mismanagement. I do understand that Human Resources does have a secondment program that can be utilized with some of the communities and possibly the bands for… I’m not sure if this department promotes that or not when they go into communities where they can second, possibly get finance workers into the communities to help them get their books up to date. I know, with certain communities that I have spoken with, the frustrations that do come along with it and the frustrations I am sure that the department sees working with communities who have run deficits and trying to get themselves back in good with the books.

We have spoken about this in some instances with the ground ambulance and highway rescue services and the decreased funding that is being proposed with this department. It is something that our communities do feel needs to be addressed and taken into consideration, considering that for quite a few of our communities the only access in is sometimes by highway, such as Tsiigehtchic and, I am not sure, I think Jean Marie. I am not too sure, but there are some communities that can only be accessed by road and more in the wintertime there. I didn’t get a chance to go through it all, but just throwing out some general comments while my colleagues are getting ready here.

Something that has been brought up is the management of drinking water for my colleague in the Sahtu and things like the Peel watershed and making sure that we do adequate testing, proper testing and looking at our standards on how we collect the water samples and the returning and getting the results back to the communities so that they are able to ensure their residents that the water that they do have is adequate for drinking and that it is safe and healthy.

At this moment I don’t have any more general comments, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to touch base on those and I look forward to hearing more on how the department is working with these community deficits, the ground ambulance services and also the management of the Drinking Water Program and the testing guidelines and standards. With that, Mr. Chair, I thank the Minister and his staff for coming and meeting with us this afternoon. Thank you, Mr. Chair.