Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to follow up with Ms. Bisaro’s comment about the status of this budget staying the same since 2000 at $28 million. I think operational costs have certainly become a challenge and I know the Minister was dead on with that, but unfortunately, I think the expenses, general expenses, part of that equation means that infrastructure expense costs have escalated quite considerably at the same time. For example, I think our Minister of Finance has told us that we used to spend $75 million in our capital budget and we were happy to do that when we could achieve it, and that probably was about 2000 or maybe even a few years later than the year 2000 when we set this at $28 million. As everybody knows, we’re up regularly over $150 million, typically over $200 million. So there is a disconnect here.
I have to disagree with the total perspective that the Minister presented that it’s just operational costs. I think, in fact, the cost of putting infrastructure on the ground without even operating it has escalated considerably over that period of time. Just by way of supporting Ms. Bisaro’s concern that we hear from communities that the $28 million was welcome, the new approach was welcomed, but the amount just doesn’t seem to be having the same capacity that it used to. Thank you.