Thank you, Madam Chairperson. In regard to the whole area of programs and service delivery, I am also talking about this government in regard to the cuts we have made and the effects that it has had on aboriginal people especially in regard to student financial assistance and the area of looking at the whole aboriginal justice committees that aboriginal groups were looking forward to being established in the community. It is a great idea, but there are limited funds to do it and carry it out. A lot of times we give the notion to aboriginal groups that we are on side, we are supporting them and everything else, but at the end of the day there are no financial resources there to do an adequate job to fulfil that obligation that we say we are giving them, especially where you talk about community empowerment regarding transferring authorities to communities.

I raised a question today in the House about the whole area of income support where a lot of bands have taken on that responsibility where at the end of the day it is costing them more to administer that program and they have to pay these extra costs which were not part of these agreements. They are finding themselves having problems keeping individuals because of the amount of work that these people have to take on and the amount of stress that these people are under. This job does not just stop after you work for hours. You go home. You get phone calls. People are threatening you on the street and what not because of decisions you have to make. With the limited resources to find somebody who can do an adequate job where you are seeing 40 to 50 people a day helping them fill out applications, reviewing people's reports, it is a stressful job as it is, but then the communities are left with a notion what did we get ourselves into. I think it is important that there is a watch dog within this government that ensures that for any programs and services that affect aboriginal people, there has to be a system in place, especially from this department, that monitors and ensures that it is carried out to be properly implemented with adequate resources.

I think a lot of times we find ourselves building up expectations especially in the aboriginal communities just to find out later that they fumbled because they basically were led to believe something and then, at the end of the day, they find out that the adequate resources are not there. I would like to ask the Minister what his department is doing to ensure that this injustice to aboriginal people is clarified and that when any programs are implemented, there is adequate resources there to carry them out.