Thank you, Mr. Chair. Like I stated, the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs spends a lot of time with communities to develop their community plans. We try to give them recommendations. If they are, for example, building a fire hall that is too big or an arena that is too big, when they have the infrastructure in place, we talk to them about their plans in regard to what it will cost to run it.
There are certain categories that they are allowed to spend their monies on to take care of their needs. Although some community governments, in all honesty, are not using their funding appropriately. We have had community governments that have loaned out some of their funds to Aboriginal governments. We have had some community governments that have decided to use quite a bit of funding for things like travel, etc. When those things do occur and we get alerted about them in their quarterly reports, we do try to work with the communities to try to provide them with advice on how they should be spending their money. Again, with the New Deal, it is the community governments' determination on where they want to spend their money. If they would rather send their council members on trips versus having an arena open 24-7, then that is the choice of the community government, but we do fund them appropriately within their operating and maintenance to be able to run the arena. Thank you, Mr. Chair.