Thank you, Madam Chair. Just to continue on the efforts from my colleague from Weledeh. I think we’re onto something here and I do realize that we have limited funds and there’s been a lot of austerity means to have a prudent budget before us. However, the concern I think many of us have, as you hear, is our energy costs and the costs associated with the cost of living. These are paramount questions that are asked time and time again, not only in the House but anywhere we go as Regular Members or as Members of the House.
The concern I have is that less than a year ago, in 2011-2012, we had $5.5 million of sunsets. A lot of the sunsets in this initiative were hydro initiatives. There was the Lutselk’e mini-hydro, there was an anti-Hydro Strategy, there was a Sahtu hydro assessment. These comprised a large part of that $5.5 million. Yet, as I said in one of my comments on the opening statement, our Hydro Strategy, in terms of our significant change that we need to do as a society to mitigate our use of fossil fuels, is very lax in this budget. In fact, we’ve been talking about hydro initiatives or strategies for the last two years. We don’t really see it again this year.
Can the Minister indicate when we will see the full investment in hydro and to coordinate that with, obviously, the transmission line strategy that we keep hearing about, especially since the charrette is now over?