Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The document was part of the Non-Renewable Resource Strategy, an expansion of a request to address 19 areas. This is an expansion of that.

When I was interviewed by the press, they were the ones who asked me about the document. I was prepared to give it to them. I had given it to the MLAs I believe a month before that and I do not see any need to suggest not to release this because we need to deal with the Non-Renewable Resource Strategy and we dealt with that in the summer time. This is an expansion of that particular area.

With regard to how that is put across in the press, I will be the last, and I am serious about this, I will not tell the press how to do their work. I was part of it for 20 years and you do not tell the press people how to write their stories. I was very emphatic to them that it was a proposal to the federal government. I was not intimating that this was $12 million that we had in our pocket that we could magically put on the table. I was very, very emphatic with them over that. How it comes across is their responsibility and their business.

Now, with regard to whether we are going to get this money and when, we are working on this. We have been working on this for some time and, as the Member well knows, we are in the middle of an election at the moment so there are some hurdles here.

However, when I was in Fredericton and met with the Honourable Jane Stewart, one of the objectives that she is trying to develop is a skills framework, whereby funding for this type of program can be funneled through and into programs like this. We are not the only jurisdiction that is working to have that kind of framework established. There are other jurisdictions as well.

It is under development by the Ministers across Canada, Ministers of employment and labour who want to address this particular funding area that Minister Stewart wants to have developed.

I see an opportunity that is still there to access. As well, we have had indications from the federal government of their interest. Thank you.