Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I too have a real concern, especially with the process that was used in this, especially after going through the March budget cycle where we approved a budget knowing that there were expenditures, that there was a session in July.

Especially now, where we see a lot of new initiatives popping up all over the place, which this is one of them. I think that with the concern raised by my other colleagues on this side of the House, it is awfully frustrating when we sit on this side of the House and we ask for resources to assist with our social problems in our communities, such as health problems in regard to the delivery of health care services. Then, all of a sudden, we keep getting the comment "We do not have the resources" or "We have to try to put it into the business planning cycle" or "We have to get it in to the main estimates." However, these types of major projects -- $1 million expenditures -- are coming through the House as special warrants.

The concern I have is that we should, realizing now that we are in a financial crunch, we are talking about initiatives and trying to get dollars for training. We are talking about resource development. I think as a government, especially from this department realizing that the financial arguments that you present to us on this side of the House are pretty hard to swallow when you see this type of initiative coming forth in this manner.

So I would like to ask the Minister, why was there not time to either put this into the main estimates and allow it to go through the budget cycle? Why is it that we could not spread this out over a longer period of time? Why was there not time to put this into the budget cycle in regard to business plans and approval of the budget from this House?