Thank you, Madam Chair. When individual departments defer maintenance, this is when we utilize the Deferred Maintenance Program. By deferring maintenance, I’m referring to the fact where the practice of postponing maintenance activities such as repairs on buildings and infrastructure in order to save costs meet funding levels or realign the available funding. During the lifecycle of a building, usually about halfway through the midlife, there’s a requirement to do some major upgrades and make sure that everything is up to date and running fast, and that the building needs are still meeting the needs of the client, department and the public. In the past, those have been deferred.

This program that we have in place is designed to assess the amount of deferred maintenance requirements in the government infrastructure and address it and find ways to improve that. It was $470 million when it was assessed, I think it was 2008-09 when the program came in, and we’ve got down to about $325 million.

The deferred maintenance that we’re talking about here is the capital side. That’s the $5 million budget, but there’s also an O and M side under the deferred maintenance for smaller activities.

Maintenance, on the other hand, is resulting from sort of just general upkeep of buildings, which might include fluorescent tube repairs, dealing with windows that may be broken, boiler repairs, regular upgrades on boilers. Not really lifecycle, but things that support lifecycle. There are some differences between just general maintenance and then the deferred maintenance plan.