Thank you, Madam Speaker. The fact is, the whole decision process for aboriginal funding arises out of submissions from the communities. As such, there is a commitment to try to be fair to all the communities. In some cases, the dollars that are being requested are larger than what can be funded and, as a result of trying to be fair, we have to reduce those applications.

Saying that, Madam Speaker, I believe that the future arrangements that we're trying to propose now are going to move in the direction of having the communities and the regions more involved in the actual determination of program allocation. But the question that needs to be addressed is the question of fairness, and our view is that the communities should be able to address that particular issue.