Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I will try to time myself, but my watch isn't working, so I'm at the mercy of the chair.
Thank you to our guests for coming here today. I'm not as intimately familiar with the situation across the country as I am with the situation in Saskatchewan. I am an RM ratepayer; my folks have farmed, and so have my relatives and so forth. I'm more than aware of the way the weather situation was this spring, because when I was trying to do some landscaping on my acreage, it just wasn't going well.
Let me just say that from my personal observations—and I could be wrong—rural municipalities in Saskatchewan probably have the toughest time to get the infrastructure done. Correct me if I'm wrong on any of what I'm about to say, but they don't have full-time professional construction staff the way a larger city would. Most of the RMs are between 1,000 and 5,000 people, correct?