I'll try to explain it as best I can, Mr. Chairman, because I tried yesterday. There is $19.8 million allocated to highway operations, 42 per cent of the budget. In my endeavours to try to cut, I had to cut it on an equitable basis so I cut it accordingly. Of this $19.8 million, 61 per cent is allocated to highway maintenance. In Mr. Antoine's riding it represents 35 per cent of the highway length in terms of the total highway system, but carries only 10.7 per cent of the highway traffic. Those are the statistical figures.
This particular area accounted for 35 per cent of the expenditures on highway maintenance. With the proposed reductions, it would still account for over 30 per cent of the highway maintenance. I don't know whether that answers Mr. Antoine's question correctly, but that's the way I understand it and that's the way we endeavoured to look at the cuts. Thank you.