Thank you, Madam Speaker. I think everybody in this House knows my position when it comes to decentralization and when it comes to improving authority. I believe I've demonstrated, certainly in my departments of Transportation and Economic Development, where we've improved and increased the spending authority at the regional

level. I would hope we would be able to, in the new EDA agreement, do exactly that: bring the authority into the regions and hopefully we would be more responsive to the client needs. That's certainly our intention in this new agreement.