The Minister is indicating that he is not going to follow the recommendation of the Standing Committee on Finance. The preamble is quite clear, we are saying that there has been a real cut into assisting victims of crime. We see a large increase in expenditures in justice and correctional services and a real decrease in assistance to victims. We don't want to delete this amount from the justice and corrections activity, but we would like to see if we could reallocate these funds to another task in the department, the victims' assistance task. This is what we're requesting.
I'd like to get a definitive answer from the Minister if that is at all possible. We're serious about this. We may have to deal with these tasks at a later time until we get some definitive answers. I would like to try one more time to see if the Minister would reconsider, if his department can look at this recommendation seriously to see if they can accommodate the recommendation of the Standing Committee on Finance. Thank you.