Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With community financial services, one of the problems we see in many municipalities is that the amount of responsibilities we are downloading to these municipalities, they do not have the financial resources. One of the big concerns many of them have relayed is that they do not have financial expertise, or people in place to deal with the financial management side of the accountability in our communities.
I see a number of communities who had to get extra funding to assist or offset their cost to the different communities for financial management services. In Fort McPherson in the last number of years, they have gone through three financial administrative officers, because you cannot attract people in these small communities. It is frustrating not only to the councillors, but also the community, because they do not have the expertise in house. The resources they get to compete against other organizations or corporations or what not, they are able to pay these extra dollars to retain these people, but to keep anybody in the small communities for an extended period of time...the government has to do more to enhance or assist them, to ensure they have the resource people in our communities to deal with the financial management of the municipalities and the dollars that are being spent in our communities.
I would like to ask the Minister what they are doing to improve that.