To the Minister: I can appreciate that we’re in a tight fiscal situation; however, $28 million in a 1.6 or 1.7 billion dollar budget is a very small percentage. I know communities are not going to get a doubling of the infrastructure dollars that are shown in this budget, but I think our communities, if we expect them to continue and if we expect our residents to continue getting the municipal services that they need
– dogs, ditches and dumps, as they
say
– if that’s going to continue, we’re going to have
to give them bigger infrastructure dollars. So, I strongly encourage the 18th Assembly to look at the
amount of money that’s going into our communities for capital and to increase it by even 10 percent
would make municipalities happy, I’m sure, and that’s not a heck of a lot of money. Thank you.