Thank you, Madam Chair. This funding would be one of the tools to assist in supporting that cost-share requirement for federal programming. There are other opportunities that we are trying to support the city with. As you can imagine, an amount like $5 million, even if we were to say it was $5 million going strictly to this funding pot, it does get distributed to a formula, so it does not go specifically to one community or one project. That is the way that our funding program works, so we do not have specific community projects on the GNWT capital plan. It's done through a formula basis, and those are choices the community makes. However, we have tried to support them to identify other cost-share opportunities.

The other thing that we are trying to do is have some significant conversations with Canada about this 75-25 cost-share component because it does put a significant burden on communities when they are applying for federal funding. There are lots of federal opportunities that come out there, but if they have to put 25-cent dollars to every one that they apply on, they very quickly run out of the money that is available for cost-share. We are also using that approach to see if we cannot work with Canada specifically on the city program because, that particular funding program, depending on the type of applicant, some projects were 100-percent funded and some were 75 percent. We are trying to advocate that the city's application should have been considered as 100-percent funded to help them out of this situation. Thank you, Madam Chair.