Mr. Chairman, I think we were advised by the Minister of Finance to prepare a list of what some of the major objectives were in our department and respond to those. On the list for our department, we noticed there was only two and those are the two that are in front of the Member now. They were considered new objectives, I guess. All of the rest of the objectives we have undertaken according to our normal work plans during the year and wherever they are found is where we get the money to do it. It is a normal function of the department to do those types of things and we assign the work by priority. It is nothing new.

The two that were identified as new ones, which they aren't, are still done under our work plan. That was to implement and evaluate the first year delivery of programs under the municipal capital assistance policy. We do that anyway because we review it every year. We have new policies in place and we will review that with our existing staff in community works and capital planning.

The development of a financial assistance policy of hamlet and charter communities taxation authority we are doing as well through our normal work plan through municipal operations and assessment. So we weren't aware that we had to explain each departmental objective in this exercise.