Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will try to remember them in the order that the Member presented them. As far as the taxation, first of all, I must say that the mandate for taxation is not our department. We only have the mandate for assessment. However, we are close to the communities and we always try to bring their concerns up to the proper authorities. I presently sit on the deputy ministers' committee with the deputy ministers of Finance and Education, Culture and Employment to review all of the concerns that the Member brought forward about the taxation and the taxation issue. Also, it will come up as an issue in the review of the Education Act as well. We are providing advice to that committee from our department, and we are well-aware of the concerns. I think we are representing them well to the committee.

With regard to the issue of fire training, again, it is a very delicate and important issue, we find. We have been working closely with the communities. We know that the program is underfunded. However, the training responsibility is the fire marshal's. I think there is a report that has been finished, a joint report done by the fire marshal's office to review the whole training at the community level. What we try to do, from a department's point of view, for ease at the community level, when we provide equipment, we make sure that all the equipment is provided to go along with the fire halls or fire trucks. We try to encourage the communities to get their fire brigades up to speed and the fire marshals provide training in the community level. As well, we encourage the communities to get training outside of the community in the regional setting where we provide the money to the community to send their people to get trained in the regional setting or wherever. The fire marshal does training as well. We know we cannot address everything in that area with the formula funding because there is not enough money. We have no more money, so we have to come up with a new strategy. We are working with the new strategy. We are trying to work at the community level, but we have no expertise for fire training within our department.