Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Some of these ventures may never become what the private sector would say is viable. They may never produce a profit, but I guess if you look at it from government's point of view and you look at it across all the departments of government and you ask, is it better that I am subsidizing a job and putting somebody to work and they are doing something meaningful, and it is costing me twenty cents on the dollar to do that, or is it better that we just pay the person to stay at home with social welfare? So there are some businesses that are there and will never make a true profit in the capitalist sense of the word, and we accept that. That is what this corporation was designed to do, in some instances to do that kind of thing.

There are other instances where the business may not make a profit, but it may not lose any money, either, and it is sort of not attractive to buy it because it is sitting in the middle. That is okay with us too, as long as it employs people and it makes products or it does some useful function and contributes to the community. There are other businesses, and Patterson Sawmill is one of them, that we believe that within three to five years, depending on the price of lumber, can be made profitable, and we can spin that back to the private sector.

So there is a mixture of things in that particular development corporation, and not all of them can be said to be profitable, or ever hope to become profitable, but they do serve the purpose, in our mind, of employment, useful activity and perhaps a better sense of one's self in being gainfully employed. Even though, to us, it may be a loss in the Department of Economic Development and Tourism, when you factor in the Minister of Social Services and what he might have to pay out, to the overall government it is probably a profit, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.