Okay, I just want to reiterate some of the comments that my colleague made in terms of funding to the Arts Council. Over the last couple of years or months, it was greatly reduced in the amounts of funding that they received, and the council and their activities have contributed, I guess, to a lot of the success stories that we are all aware of across the north in terms of projects, the arts festival, the T.V. Society, the video centre in Igloolik, and Northern Arts & Cultural Centre in Yellowknife, and so on.

The Members on the council are finding it difficult to continue to support individual artists or organizations because on the one hand, they are praising them, trying to support them, and then on the other hand, when they write the cheques out, they are saying they are sorry, you know, because we have cut back, we have to reduce the amounts, and the responsibility is in the department's hands. The people at the front lines, who give out the cheques, or make the recommendations, are finding it very difficult in dealing with their peers, they are the front line people and have to face the music.

I just want to reiterate that we should be looking, again, at some of these areas a little more carefully, maybe there are other ways of supporting our artists, and maybe we should look at how we do that. I do not have any ideas right now, but again, just about every activity that we looked at cut, cut, cut. I know it is the time we are in, the time of restraint, but I think our monies can be better spent, looking at ways of providing better support to some of these organizations.