Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In providing the statement, Mr. Speaker, I was informing the honourable Members -- and I think an issue that we are all grappling with at this particular time -- about the amount of financial resources that we have available to us, whether or not it is in this government or whether or not it is in institutions that act on our behalf as our agents.

Mr. Speaker, the honourable Member made a number of statements in this Assembly about the way in which we deliver programs. The honourable Member pointed out a very successful program in his region. For us to continue or pursue the suggestion that the honourable Member made about the idea of a permanent institution to deliver that program, which was the arts program, requires us to rethink the way in which we spend resources in Arctic College. What I was doing was indicating that in order for us to respond to the suggestions being made in this Assembly and the requests that are being made in our regions, we must assess our priorities and we must review our expenditures in the regions in order for us to accommodate the requests that have been made by other regions.