David Krutko

Moving on. Mr. Miltenberger, did you have a question? Moving on to page 6-10, Municipal and Community Affairs, information item, active position summary. Mr. Yakeleya.

Mr. Chair, the reason I raise the question is because I’ve been working on projects in my riding, regardless if it’s looking at shoreline erosion for Aklavik or main street chipseal for Fort McPherson or some sort of youth centre for Aklavik or even an outdoor skating rink, but it seems like that corporate knowledge is no longer at the regional level. I mean, either through retirement and whatnot. But yet a lot of this information is still compiled at headquarters. I think that you have to find a way to improve the relationship between communities and not say, well, sorry, we gave you the...

Moving on to page 6-37, Municipal and Community Affairs, regional operations, operations expenditure summary. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. With that, I’d like to ask the Minister if he will be bringing in any witnesses.

Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs.

Minister of MACA.

The reason I asked the question is in McPherson we do have to deliver water some 20 kilometres from the water source. You have different treatment systems. You have water delivery systems. You have a utilidor system. I think what we’re finding is that you have an aging piece of infrastructure and at some point you’re going to have to either replace it, upgrade it, or get rid of it. I’m talking about the utilidor system and the growing community. I think the hamlet has taken it on their own to take over some of those responsibilities because they are struggling to manage the money they do have...

Minister of MACA.

Mr. Chairman, just a question under other expenses. You mentioned $190,000...(inaudible)...

Total grants and contributions, $3.365 million.