Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We keep hearing about a shortage of funding. I am not on the Social Programs committee, but one thing I have not heard adequately addressed yet is how much of the funding that we could be spending on facilities in the North are we spending on facilities in the South. We talk about repatriation, but I don't see much of it happening. In my opinion -and I could be wrong on this -- at this point in

time, he is paying lip service to repatriation and we are spending millions of dollars in southern institutions. So when you ask where the money is going to come from, I would suggest the money is going to come from not paying to send people out to really expensive facilities in southern Canada. I support, as I think this government does, people receiving treatment in their own regions and communities.

We talk about community empowerment and we talk about people dealing with their own problems in their own ways. I would say that providing funding to such a facility has got to be in keeping with what this government is saying at this time. Until we know exactly what we are spending in southern institutions, I don't know how anybody could answer the question of where the money is going to come from, but I would suggest that would be a good place to start. Thank you.