Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, funds have been allocated on a regional basis or a community by community basis so that we have targets for each community to make sure that one area does not eat up all of the funding leaving none for others. Community groups submit their applications which are reviewed by an interdepartmental committee at the regional level. The

applications do not come back to headquarters, they are reviewed in the regions. This interdepartmental committee will then weigh the merits of each application, consider the amount of funding that is available by community and decide on which of the projects proposed will receive funding. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.