Thank you, Madam Chair. This funding goes to community governments to help support the delivery of water and sewer services, including water treatment plants and sewage lagoons. More recently, we are looking at expanding this envelope of funding to also include solid-waste facilities. That would be part of that. The funding that is provided to community governments goes into a restricted water and sewer fund, so the money can only be used for the purposes of delivering those services. Municipalities will also collect rates off of residents to help offset the cost of delivery of that service, so in effect, the money that the government is providing helps to reduce the cost of the rate on the ratepayer or on the residents. This does not include capital. Capital is included in the community public infrastructure budget, and that is where that funding would come for the replacement cost of any of those facilities, be it a water treatment plant, a sewage lagoon, or a solid-waste facility. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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