Mr. Chairman, I think the question of urgency in this matter that warrants a million dollar quick spending is a matter of opinion. Mr. Chairman, we reviewed yesterday in this House, in this committee, supplementary spending for the establishment of an Energy Secretariat, where $100,000 was allocated for consultation, another $80,000 for consensus building, $50,000 for research and analysis, and demonstration projects of $45,000. Now we are looking at another $100,000 for travel and consultation, another $100,000 for publications and materials, and $800,000 for research. I am advised here that the Minister is planning on spending more in this area.

I guess my first question would have to be, does the Minister see any redundancy in the government creating an Energy Secretariat that has a separate task, and then the Minister and the chairman of FMBS flying in charters all over the North, doing a thing that sounds like it should really be done by an Energy Secretariat? Does the Minister see any problems with that?