Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just briefly, this has been a concern of ours as well. What we have done as a department is to organize the funding so that it is allocated at the regional level and the regional staff, working cooperatively with industry and aboriginal groups, can make decisions and fund programs directly at the regional level.

There is the authority to make decisions quickly and my sense, at least at this point, is that staff are very acutely aware of the need to be responsive on a timely basis. Thank you.