Any changes will have to be rationalized. The obvious area is if our staff in Ottawa had enough time, I really think there's more that we can do with the central agencies and more we can do with deputy ministers. What is

going to be happening in the next few years that each one of the provinces have people in Ottawa. They have contacts and connections. We have to always be there to protect ourselves. We have to invite as many federal Ministers up here as we can. Everything is going to be more aggressive than we have operated in the past. Not because we have been wrong in the past, but because the world is changing rapidly. I think it is very necessary that we address that. I am glad to hear the Minister will review it and hopefully when we come back in June, we will perhaps have some further thoughts.

I would like to leave the future for the moment and deal with the present. Perhaps the Minister can tell us his ideas of how the department is going to deal with the whole referendum issue. What is the strategy of our government dealing with its upcoming referendum?