I want to refresh Members on this issue. There was a deeper concern that this committee has had and Members have had in the last two or three years. There seems to be, in different departments, a proliferation of more and more video equipment and more and more, and more of the government doing something which can very easily be done by the private sector. This committee over the last couple of years has, on a number of occasions, raised this as an issue.

The Minister, in the last O and M budget, came before the committee and gave us an undertaking that if we supported the existing level of resources to the department in this area, he would ensure that any new resources would go to the private sector; that was the deal. At that time, if the Minister remembers, we were very seriously considering cutting out that whole section. The Minister and his staff made a strong case for existing resources, and we had given that as only one example; one task for the Minister to just have a look at the value. But it was symptomatic of a deeper concern that we had.

Now we see, again, more expenditure of money in an area which logically lends itself to the private sector so the committee is concerned about that. And it doesn't seem to be going along with what we thought was the understanding we had reached with the Minister when we went through this last time. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.