Thank you, Madam Chair. I am not going to try and go through it line by line. There is obviously quite a lot in the Member's comments, but just to touch on a couple of items if I might, Madam Chair. Importantly, with respect to housing, the housing infrastructure budget isn't in this budget at all. The housing infrastructure budget is in the operations and maintenance budget in the form of a transfer that they get through the Department of Finance, so this just simply is not the occasion when anyone is going to be able to review the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation's operations or their capital budget. I can't put more housing infrastructure money in here because it's a different budget, which I recognize is a bit difficult, maybe, to then sort of scope out as we do this, but this is currently the way our system has been designed and structured.
With respect to Internet, Madam Chair, similarly, there is money in here for some of the infrastructure projects surrounding broadband and broadband expansion. There is more money that, again, comes in through operations and maintenance, but to ask for the Government of the Northwest Territories to become an Internet service provider is quite a different thing altogether. That, again, is not necessarily something that is going to be contemplated in an infrastructure budget, right now or on the fly.
Then, with respect, Madam Chair, to just why we're doing some of the big projects and the balance that is there and to what extent it is federally driven, we are so far behind. We are, if I recall correctly, the farthest behind out of every jurisdiction in terms of both the amount of infrastructure we have and in terms of the age of the infrastructure that we have, and that applies to the schools and to the health centres. It applies to our housing. It applies to our roads. Yes, these are large projects, and yes, some of that is federally driven, but I don't think it's for lack of need. Obviously, each department will have to go through what their contribution is to making up that need, but I wouldn't want to let it be any mistake. Every single project in here, there is some departmental need that is being met, and very often with federal dollars. Thank you, Madam Chair.