Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I also have to speak in favour of this motion. I feel that the work that is done by the women organizations is very important, and I also feel that the native women's funding should not be cut, as well. The women's groups work in the healing area and they work in all areas. For instance the native women do not just work with the Dene or the Metis or the Inuit, they cover all native groups or peoples. Similarly, the Status of Women works for all women, and as I said before, those groups are not just working to further women's issues, they are working in healing, and it is very, very essential that communities and families do get healthy. It is not much good to offer all kinds of education programs and economic programs and jobs if the people are not healthy mentally.
Because if they are not mentally healthy then they can not take proper advantage of those millions of dollars that we are spending on the education programs and jobs, they can not take proper advantage of those if they are not healthy. We are talking together with the two women's groups, I believe it is something like $52,000, or $48,000, to this government that is not even a drop in the bucket, but to those two organizations, it could mean the difference between one staff person that has to be let go out of a very small labour force that they have, very small personnel group. I have to speak in favour of this motion and I would have liked to put both the Native Women and the Status of Women in the same motion, but I am not sure how to go about this. I would like to move an amendment to the motion. The amendment would be to include the Native Women's Association at the end of the first paragraph, so that it is the Status of Women Council and the Native Women's Association, and then in the second part, amending it to include the amount for the native women as well. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.