Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I certainly agree with the Minister that, in many cases, people do not seem to recognize their vulnerability to this terrible disease. We do need to find more ways to get the message out effectively. I think that is one of the things that the Special Committee on Health and Social Services tried to emphasize. We have to find effective ways of getting the message out.
I think the Minister has suggested that he is waiting for people to tell him about ways that work to get the message across. In every community that we travelled to, on the special committee, I asked people about their AIDS awareness and tried to gauge how effective we had been at getting the message across to communities. The one community that stood out above all the others, although it had happened only fairly recently, was Tuktoyaktuk. The approach that was used in Tuktoyaktuk was one that has shown great promise. I would urge the department to take a look at that example and see if we can't find ways to support the CHRs and the community nurses to follow the process that was followed in Tuktoyaktuk and try and use that approach. It is obvious that the booklets and advertisements aren't working. The schools don't seem to be successfully getting the message across, but in Tuktoyaktuk I know that I found there seemed to be a much higher awareness of the problem of AIDS, a much better awareness of how to deal with preventing it. There seemed to have been some change in behaviour based on what people verbally indicated. I think that represents one success that should be looked at.
It is not clear from the budget. Have we devoted more in the way of fiscal and human resources to dealing with AIDS in this budget than the current year? Is it less or about the same?