Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The proposal that is before the Members is one that has been submitted to the federal government. It was worked on for some period of time and was being developed and was tied to the Non-Renewable Resource Strategy. We have to have a context in which to do work in and in which to move forward. If we had funding, in what way would we dedicate it to address the issues of human resource development? I think that we have done that. We have it here in a package and it is one that gives the context.

I want to emphasize the word context in that. Every government organization, any business needs a plan, a vision of how to address the issues. In our case, it is issues of development. We needed to put that down in some format and some framework, and I believe, again, that we have done that. It gives a guide to where potentially we could funnel funding if and when we get this.

The issue was one of ensuring that we start looking at the activity that is potentially going to happen over the next couple of years. It is starting to come on us fairly rapidly, as we all know. It is okay for all organizations to say, hey look, how are we going to address that? It would be wrong for us not to try and put that into a framework as we have done. That is the reason this is here.

There may be questions with regard to the content of the context. No doubt. I do not think we should be saying that it is wrong to have a plan. I think we do have a plan and this is what it is. Is it adequate? Well, we have done some forecasting and we feel that we could go for the moon of course, but we feel this is realistic to start with.

Now, with regard to some of the questions about the 16-26-36 programs, I would like to have Mr. Cleveland address those particular questions, as well as those regarding the social passing. Perhaps he could address that as well.