Thank you, Daniel. I'll certainly try to add a little bit of detail.
There was a $200-million mountain pine beetle response, as you point out. About $150 million of that was administered by Natural Resources Canada; I can't really speak to that portion.
But with regard to the roughly $50 million that went to our department, there were two components. The first was the community economic diversification initiative, which I think my deputy described fairly well, and after the process that Daniel spoke to, we now have in place some 148 contribution agreements in communities throughout the interior of British Columbia that will fully utilize the funds that were originally part of that program. We're seeking about $12 million in order to complete that process through this supplementary estimates process.
The second part of the program that we were responsible for was something called the airport improvement initiative, which contributed just over $18 million towards improvements at the airports in Kelowna, Kamloops, and Prince George, three of the larger communities that were particularly affected by the pine beetle infestation. These projects were intended to enable larger passenger aircraft to land to take advantage of tourist potential, and also to take advantage of some air freight potential, particularly at Prince George, which we thought was quite attractive because it is on the great circle route from Asia to North America.
In fact, just recently we've had the first plane actually land at Prince George to take advantage of that new refuelling opportunity. There's a small amount, half a million dollars, in the supplementary estimates to complete that.
The airport improvements initiative is nearing completion, and all the projects on the community economic development initiative are approved. Those funds have started to flow now.