Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think all of us appreciate the comments that have been made by the honourable Member for Yellowknife Frame Lake. However, I do want to indicate that when we embarked upon the so-called cooperative investing in people work activity projects, the funding sources that we wanted to consider, that initiative is based on employables. Most of those employables in their communities now are the young people. Most of the projects that are now developed are, in many respects, responding directly to training and educating our young people in their twenties and early thirties. This is an area where we had some difficulty.
On the matter of additional resources, there is a request that will be made. Obviously, as a government, we will constructively respond to those initiatives. But there are many programs that are now available that the communities should become aware of in that the youth initiatives money from the federal government which in some cases we're cost-sharing. These are monies that are available on a cost-shared basis. The investing in people, the work activities, that's an issue that is cost-shared. So we're actually increasing the total amount of dollars that are going to be available for activities in the communities.
But I do take the concern of the honourable Member to heart, that there is a requirement for any additional resources. The thing is that we can cost-share it and reduce our dollar expenditures and have the federal government spend money with us, we're going to consider that as well.