Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The deferred maintenance budget of $5 million is in the capital and we also have $3 million in O and M in deferred maintenance, as the Members are aware. The infrastructure deficit is impacted a bit by deferred maintenance. Deferred maintenance essentially is on infrastructure that is already in place; however, it prevents that from becoming infrastructure deficit by us doing midlife work. Also, when there is time for items that have been deferred, that is the program for deferred, then we then do the work on the building. So we have been able to reduce our deferred maintenance from $470 million in 2007-08 to $290 million currently. So we have worked towards, I guess in a sense we are reducing the infrastructure deficit.

The shop in Norman Wells, for us, is something positive. We are working with the Department of Lands to build a shop that we are both going to use. We both gain from working together. We are using a piece of land that was transferred, actually an asset that was transferred over by the federal government that was beyond the use, it was not a safe building to use. The federal government is going to demolish the building and remediate the site and it will be then transferred to Lands. So that land will become available, essentially leaving the Lands without a shop in Norman Wells. We have been talking to that department and there will be a joint shop built there, so that’s something that we’ll benefit from. Lands will not use their building all the time. It’s going to be to store some equipment for parts of the year.

In Deline that concept has been presented to us by the community governments. Their wish is that ourselves work with the local hamlet, the local housing authority and also Environment and Natural Resources to build a joint multi-use facility, multi-use warehouse, shop, so that is something that we are continuing to discuss. Our plan for Deline, I believe, is quite a ways out. We are looking at the scheduling of all our warehouses that need to be replaced, and that comes in down the road at 2021-22. This is something that we need to discuss with the other departments that may have an earlier need, and if we can have economies of scale and it will allow us to move that number closer to now, we may be able to do that.

I like the idea that shops such as these could be used in schools where they don’t have the technical program in the schools and so on. Again, that’s something that I would be prepared to have discussions with the Minister of Education that

could eventually lead to discussions between ourselves and the various education authorities.