I think that even the previous Minister responsible for Social Services, as well as the present one, was trying to grapple with being more flexible, to see whether the territorial government or local government uses the money in the best way possible. We would like to see some of those changes as well. We have a standing invitation to meet with Mr. Mulroney in terms of our formula funding and some of the other issues. I would like to say at that time that we would like more flexibility, because I know the communities would want that as much as we do.

I think it gives us no end of concern when we would like to operate programs that reflect the requirements or the needs and aspirations of the people. We are tied to a framework that is determined by the federal funding policy.

I believe this is a good opportunity to address those issues and see what flexibility there can be. If there is no flexibility, the concern would be the same sitting around here as it would be for a community. So I cannot say positively, "Yes, we will get around all the hurdles we have in delivering all the social programs." We are suffering from it right here at the territorial level as much as the communities would. Hopefully, we can work and identify some of those key issues as we go along.