Mr. Speaker, as I've expressed to the House on several occasions, I expect that the various departments and the Ministers would try to follow through on the specific programs that relate to the function of their department, or attached functions or are complementary to the functions of the department. The Minister of Finance has set up an internal team to try to monitor, under the Department of Finance, just exactly what those cuts will be. As the Member, from his experience, will know, sometimes it's very difficult to get immediate response because it appears the direction is to cut, but then the departments in the federal regime are left to make those cuts. Sometimes they don't know until later where they're going to meet their budget allocations.
So we're trying to very hard to keep track of what is going on within the department and with overall planning in the Department of Finance. That's one of the reasons Mr. Pollard is in Ottawa right now, because he had an indication that the community futures program may be on the block and that if we didn't very quickly make representation; that we stood to lose it. So, it's looked at overall and monitored by the Minister of Finance. However, each program department tries to zero in on what is relative to their job functions. That's the way we're handling it now. When we have indicators that there's a problem, we try to get down to deal with the federal Minister responsible as soon as possible. That's how we're dealing with it right at the moment. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.