Mr. Chairman, in the social assistance budget it is a little different. We know that in there, there are some efficiencies to be gained if we have better communication links and so on. In this particular instance what we are seeing is a huge jump in one year, for reasons we don't know. I am not prepared, at this time, to say this trend is going to continue, but we should guess that there is going to be the same kind of requirement to investigate and apprehend children as there was this year. We are waiting to find out from the department exactly what happened. Let's just hope that this anomaly doesn't occur again; simply because if there is a trend and we are seeing more children requiring help and more children who need to be looked after by the government, then it bodes for an even greater social problem out there.

I am hoping that this was just a freak year and hopefully it won't happen again next year. If it does happen again next year and we have reasons to believe that it is going to continue, then we are going to have to address, at that time, what I would call a crisis, Mr. chairman. Thank you.