Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a very few general comments and with to pose a few questions about Social Services. We spend $80 odd million in this department in O and M. So, it is less than ten per cent of our budget. The concern I have always had is when you look at how money is spent in providing services to this department, I have often wondered if we have ever examined in any detail the number of people or the percentage of the population that makes use of the service provided by that $80 odd million.

The other question related to that is whether we have looked at those regions of the territories, not only the total population, but the regions of the territories where we have the highest use of the services of that department. In many ways, those people are among the unfortunate, or the unlucky people, who need more assistance from government than others.

The third question is once you look at where the people need the service, and there are dozens of reasons, we do not need to go into all the reasons why people need the services of this department, what degree then to those statistics on the use of that service play a part in what the rest of the government does. In other words, if you know there are certain problems with the region, how much support do you get from other departments to try to recognize that there is a specific problem in this part of the population or in this region, so you can say this is where we need to have more economic development, et cetera? Does this play a part in the way government plans? The fact is we have certain portions of the population that are not self-controlled, self-reliant or self-fulfilled. We do not need to go into the reasons why all of this has happened. So, those are the three questions that are of interest to me, both as general comments and questions about this department which is consuming a little bit less than ten per cent of the government's budget.