Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Minister says it is a concern, but he acknowledges that on a financial point of view, it had not been talked to for a year. He has made no offer to suggest that while we can attempt...there is three and a half days left until their funding expires. They are probably going to hear about it in the news at this point.
Given that this is a program department, a department that deals with people, I am taken aback, to say the least, by the relatively callous, high-handed, apparently cavalier approach to these programs that get by on a shoe string, trying to do good work for those people in need, being treated in such a dismissive manner.
It defies belief for me that we would be doing that. They are the people we are here to represent. Can I ask the Minister if he can at least make some attempt to show some compassion here? I know they are not going to put any money in, but let us not sandbag these poor people.