Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to pick up where I left off on the Joint Emergency Preparedness Program which has sunsetted with the federal government. This was established in 1980, according to their website, to enhance the national capacity to respond to all types of emergencies and to enhance resiliency of critical infrastructure. Over the course, they gave out $170 million to provinces and territories at a federal contribution of 75 percent to the projects.
My question is this: This free money – and I will call it free money – was available to this government up until the fiscal year-end of 2012, and yet I see that we have not taken up that money in 2012. It’s not in any literature that we have here. Can I get a bit of an update as to, as I said in my earlier questions, what has been the uptake of this free federal money? And if we can get a bit of a background in terms of what were we able to use that money for.