Thank you, Madam Speaker. Since 1991, there has been quite a substantial increase in funding; growing from about $14,000 total a year to these groups, to now in excess of $150,000. The funding has stayed the same in the last couple of years. The difficulty is trying to get the federal government to be clear about how they're going to continue funding this government in housing and in the base funding we get every year. The funding to these groups has stayed the same in the last couple of years.

What we indicated at the beginning of the year is, by letter, telling them the funding is going to stay the same as last year, but that they should look at the end of November to making a proposal to the department. And if we found any money internally, we would do everything we can to fund them. The funding that started at the beginning of the year is the same as last year's. It's intended to carry them through the entire year. As we indicated in November, they should consider providing proposals to us and we had hoped to be clear by now, whether or not there would be savings in any of the programs. So far, we have not identified any. Thank you.