Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So then I am to take it that this is no indication that we are now doing less with less and, in fact, I hope we are doing more with less and we found some efficiencies.

I guess I was a little, maybe taken back when, the Minister referred to there being also federal funding in a lot of these areas and the recent announcement of supposed federal funding in the area of FAS/FAE. I think that was $850,000 a year. I thought it was new money. It looked like it was new money when it was reported on the media. In fact I now understand it is basically the wind down of a program. These are dollars that are allocated across the nation and we stand very little chance of getting any of this money, because many of the projects have to be national in scope to qualify. It is pathetic.

I hope that we are not sitting around waiting for the federal government to ante up and fill in where we are unable or unwilling to put the dollars ourselves, because they will not. I think that everybody in this room knows it.

I think this speaks volumes about the importance the federal government places on FAS and FAE and other similar areas in health promotion. Again maybe the Minister can comment and reassure me that we are not waiting for them to step into the breach here.