Mahsi, Mr. Chair. This whole capital planning process, we go through it every year on an annual basis. Some departments get a fair amount of projects and some don’t. It’s just the reality of it. We follow through with the process that’s been set as part of the capital planning process and all of the departments follow the government-established capital planning process. You know, I can just lay it out where the protection of people, the protection of assets, protection of the environment, financial investment, and also program needs and requirements.
This is also my priority as Minister responsible for Education, Culture and Employment. Every year we go through this. We push so many projects into our system and at the end of the day we receive a few of them. As with any other department that will be before you, it does fluctuate. I can state that over the last five years as the Minister responsible for Education, Culture and Employment, we’ve had upwards of $290 million projects over a five-year period. So we’ve done okay. We’ll continue to push those forward on an annual basis during the capital planning process.
So I just want to reiterate that as a department, we’re very serious about all the capital projects that are before us and we’ll continue to push them through the system. Mahsi, Mr. Chair.