Thank you, Mr. Chair. Since I have been in the role as the Minister of MACA, I have had pretty good discussions with the executive of the NWTAC. I have told them that we have got to work together to get this addressed.
At the same time, our staff have been taking on some administrative roles for some of the municipalities because they aren't able to find SAOs or find people that can do financial work for them. That takes away from the work that we do at the department level, and it is something that I have been pushing. We need to make sure that the resources that our municipal governments have are adequate to address the concerns that the Members have raised. We want to promote that. We do that through the School of Community Government and getting our district offices out promoting our programs and services that we provide.
In terms of communities over roads, we all have got to work together, and I think that, as elected officials, and this is something that I will say this weekend when I meet with the mayors and council, they have a role to play as well, being elected for their constituents.
MACA has done a great job in working with our municipalities. In some cases, we have had to take more responsibility on than we would have liked to, but we are working to make sure that all communities have the resources to implement this.
I do appreciate the suggestions from the Member, but really, when you look at the realities, there are resources issues that we need to address, and we are working on trying to address those through the programs that we provide. Thank you, Mr. Chair.