Thank you, Mr. Chair. That certainly is an area that we have been working on in 2018-2019. We will continue to work on it in 2019-2020. Some of the things you will see in this budget will help us address that issue going forward in 2019-2020. One of those areas is the strategic infrastructure division that we have proposed here in the budget.

The intent there of that division is to off-load a lot of the work around these large federal Infrastructure investments like the recently announced investment for Mackenzie Valley highway from our line staff who are focused on delivering the day-to-day infrastructure needs to support the other areas of government operation, for example, our client-managed capital and our own highway and airport and transportation-related infrastructure. That is one of the areas where we are making some changes to address the issue that has been raised by committee when we went through our business plan review but also, I think, previously during Committee of the Whole.

The second area is in regional operations. We put enhanced tracking and monitoring of the client-managed capital in place, doing regular tracking, working with our client departments to look for those areas that are adding delay or risk, and finding ways to mitigate them. Some of it is a result of processes within our department. Some of it is outside of our control and around programming decisions and decisions by third-party stakeholders who are involved in some of the projects. We are looking at ways where we can reduce those bottlenecks, as well.

The second thing we are doing is looking at adding additional capacity in the area of project delivery at the front line where our project officers are delivering those projects so that we can keep them moving along, as well. Also, we are enhancing front-end work we are doing around budgeting and planning in terms of having more detailed projects developed through the planning-study process before we seek the appropriation.

There are a number of ways we are working on this. In particular, this year, in 2019-2020, we have put a lot of effort on reducing the carry-overs on some of the ones that were a chronic issue for committee around the area of our culvert, bridge, and gypsum programs. Thank you, Mr. Chair.