Thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the explanation, but it doesn’t give me much comfort. I’m being asked to approve more money than what’s actually required in this budget year. We’re committing to do that, to ask for some money for a certain program or service and ask for more money than was required in a budget year. I think the Minister responsible or Cabinet would laugh us out of the room.

I appreciate this is a bit of a different situation, but it seems to go to a number of decisions that have been taken over the last six months to a year that pretty much tell me that I don’t have much of a hand in anything that’s going on here. I’m beginning to feel that decisions that are made by the Executive. We’ll tell you about it as a Regular Member, but don’t expect to have any input and don’t expect to have any opportunity to provide your views. That’s my perception. I hope that’s not what the intent is, but that’s how I’m feeling.

This $20 million as well as the money that is going to have to be spent for fire suppression is a huge

amount of money. I’m not sure if Mr. Dolynny asked the question or not, but how much are we going to have to borrow and what is going to be our borrowing cost? I’m presuming that we don’t have this money since these two expenses are outside the budget that we approved February/March. So, I am presuming that we have to borrow the money. Is that correct that we have to borrow the money? If we have to borrow the money, how much are we borrowing and what is it going to cost us to borrow that money? Thank you.