Most of the problems come through me -- and I appreciate the Minister's help and Tom Beaulieu has been very helpful -- but I sometimes find that the requests I make get changed by the local organizations. I think, in this case, it happened on the reserve. I would like to be informed when those decisions are made so that I don't raise people's expectations that money was identified for their unit and the band decides to put it somewhere else. I have run into those situations.
As long as the corporation informs me, at least I could then tell the client that the money was there for them, but the band decided to use it somewhere else. At least it doesn't make me look bad and I don't give them false expectations.