Thank you, Mr. Chair. I did hear the Members' comments, all of them that made general comments to the Minister of Finance's opening remarks. We do know this is a concern, and I did hear it when I did become Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, when I did sit with the NWTAC's executive. This year, there is a small increase in the funding for O and M as well as, I believe, water and sewer services. Since, I think, 2014, there has been small incremental increases each year. This funding really is used for core needs of the community, and I know we need to find ways to address that. As you heard with the Minister of Finance, we try to allocate some of our dollars, and some of the communities actually use some of their CPF funding to try to leverage federal dollars, as well. Some of the agreements and federal funding that we are looking for and looking at is obviously the new Building Canada Plan, Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Plan as well. So we're looking at opportunities that we can look at closing some of the gaps through trying to leverage some of that federal funding.

As we all know, there's been new elections that just happened, and we are committed to sitting down with the new membership, looking at addressing this by developing a strategy. As Members know, during business planning session I did mention we have put that strategy on hold until the elections were done. Hopefully, we should have that strategy in place in the early new year. We will share it with the NWTAC as well as committee then.

Through you, Mr. Chair, maybe I can ask my assistant deputy minister if there's any other further information he'd like to share with the committee. Thank you.