Thank you, Madam Chair. I don’t disagree with many of the concerns that are being brought up, but I am having a hard time shoe horning such comments into a discussion of the capital budget with the Department of Finance given that we will have these discussions in another forum at another time, and we can’t make any decisions here. Although I do have to reply to a couple of things that I heard the Minister say.

MLAs that lay out the priorities, certainly MLAs don’t lay out the priorities during this government. Albeit, it’s probably because this side of the House has chosen not to use their power.

This is the fourth year budget and the significance to that is we’re leaving some pretty horrible stuff for the 18th Assembly to try and deal with. The Minister

said controlling our revenues. I’m not sure he meant to say that. We certainly don’t control our revenues. We do very little to increase our

revenues, in fact, despite Members pointing out opportunities there. The Minister, however, does, when all is said and done, admit that it is not sustainable, and that’s, I think, where the concerns are coming from. But like they say, that’s another discussion.

Getting to the Department of Finance capital budget here, I see our estimate last year was $450,000 and the revised estimates, $1.031 million. That sounds like quite a divergence at 115 percent, and who knows if it’s over yet. Then a major reduction to $210,000 this year. Maybe I can just get an explanation of what’s going on there.