I’m glad the Minister said all of the report there. I’d also like to see if we know if it’s possible before we leave. I’m not too sure what the officials would, but he’s the Minister and he could make it happen. So I look forward to his leadership on having this report come to this side so we can see it in the near future. I want to thank the Minister on that process we’re going to be going through.

I want to also ask the Minister, in regard to the infrastructure, I’m glad that we’re talking about the $28 million. The price of doing business in the communities further north and in the smaller, isolated communities has gone up, even in Yellowknife, where we still have the $28 million that we had five years ago. The gas, the oil, infrastructure, maintenance and all that have gone up and $28 million hasn’t. We haven’t seen an increase on a yearly basis. That’s an area of concern that I’m not too sure what the Minister could do to seek support from the federal government or somehow that if this is an area that we could see an increase.

As I’ve said before, the operation and maintenance funding is a real concern for my communities, especially with the type of infrastructure on the water plants or even operations in the sewage area, the costs are going up. The costs are going up quite extensively and it’s hitting their pocketbooks, so then the communities are left with some very challenging questions as five important projects, because of the funding and because of the maintenance, we can only do two or three projects and we can’t do the other ones. That becomes a concern.

It’s been raised by members in the Sahtu communities to me. Fort Good Hope is even looking at a new water treatment source because they do not trust the Mackenzie River. They have seen a lot of contamination in that water and they’re very, very scared and they want some safety for themselves. Some of this very basic infrastructure such as water, contaminated areas need to be cleaned up. The communities are left with some very challenging decisions.

Mind you, they deal with what they have to work with and that’s the money that’s given to them by the communities by the Minister of MACA and they do their best. They’re always looking at other areas where they could serve the people as much as possible.

I’m not too sure if there is a question in there, Madam Chair, but I just wanted him to know about this funding here and will we see some increase.