Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I indicated earlier, the departmental staff has been working since last week on pulling out the recommendations looking for possible efficiencies. I am not in the position at this point to give the Member any specific examples of where I think money could be saved or reallocated, barring of course another very mild winter for continued lower use of income support or student financial assistance, which is where we were able to move money from last year. At this point, I am still looking and I intend to report back. I have written to the committee about the possibility of, at their convenience, meeting to discuss the issues to get feedback.

I would also like to point out that we have just spent months on this budget process and I would appreciate all the help I could get from my colleagues on the Social Programs Committee in terms of trying to identify any movement we can find in terms of being able to reallocate budget resources. Thank you.