Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was involved with one of these organizations some years ago. If my memory serves me correctly, it was reasonably complicated for non-professional people to provide the level of detail and criteria that were required by the department. I would draw it to the attention to the Minister that most of these organizations consist of volunteers, and the boards are volunteers and they do not necessarily have a lot of financial expertise available to them. If the boards have to employ some financial expertise to put these requests for proposals to the department, it takes away valuable funds that could be helping the board provide services to the groups they serve. I am wondering if the Minister would commit to, seeing as there is only a small number of them, five organizations, having his staff over the next year sit down with representatives from each of these five organizations and try and come up with something that would be reasonably straightforward and simple to make their application for funding.

I think it is fair to say that the department, with the resources they have and the personnel they have available to them, there is probably sufficient expertise there that they can and would be able to identify that the requests are reasonable even though they may not be in the exact detail the department requires. My question to the Minister is, would he consider sitting down with the representatives of these organizations, over the next year, to try and get something that is uniform and reasonably straightforward to fill out for funding? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.