I certainly did not mean to get my honourable colleague excited about the issue. I am trying to answer the question. If he feels I am evading it, then I apologize. What I am saying to you is, as the Finance Minister and chairman of the FMB, I have an overall responsibility to ensure that the government and the

departments meet the fiscal targets that we set for this government's balance sheet. That is my job to say that we are going to spend, $1,183 billion. It is distributed amongst the programs, et cetera. It is all laid out within that. There may be subsidies like water, sewer, power, equalization payments, like BIP, et cetera, and the responsibility for government is to ensure that we meet the targets that are set. These targets are equally set with committees. If he is asking me to pull all the subsidies out of government, that is a different story. That would take a great deal of more time. The overall coordination and responsibility for myself, and the FBM in this House, is to ensure that we meet the targets that are set within the overall spending that is authorized by the government. I do not know how else to answer it. If my honourable colleague would like to give me a little more clarity, I will do the best I can. I do not quite fully understand the question and again, I am not trying to be silly. The Department of Health gets x number of dollars, with x number of dollars it does x amount of programs. RWED gets x amount of dollars, it does x amount of programs. It spends money. It hires staff. It delivers services. It gives grants. It gives subsidies, et cetera. That is what it does.

My job and the FMB's job is to make sure that we meet the overall fiscal targets of the government and stay within the Financial Administration Act, et cetera and the policies of government. That is why I am at a loss, quite frankly, and I am not very frequently there, as to what more I can say, unless my honourable colleague can perhaps give me more clarity and I will see what I can do. Thank you.