Thank you, Mr. Chair. The New Deal came out in 2007, and that was when the Government of the Northwest Territories stopped telling communities what to do with their funds and actually started listening to the communities and allowing communities to decide their own.
In 2014, though, we did do another funding review. At that time, when we looked at the operating and maintenance, we did take into consideration all of their core infrastructure needs, and an arena is a core infrastructure. It is in the category of core infrastructures. At that point, we realized that, I can't remember the exact figure, I think it was $39 million in deficit. We presented to FMB a package to deal with the deficits within a five-year period. It came back and said that they would want over 10 years.
We have a 10-year commitment actually, and that is why you see new increases every year to address the gap. I think at this point we are now at $34 million. Thank you, Mr. Chair. What I am saying is that, yes, the operating and maintenance is included with the communities and it does take into account the fact that they would have an arena as well as other core infrastructure in the communities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.