Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am certainly appreciative of the Minister and the department having put the money that they have into this program and in the other areas of the program as well. However, I still think we need to make sure that we are supporting our disabled residents adequately. I think a comparison to Alberta would be worthwhile and we would hope that we would follow through after making that comparison.

In another area, Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask about student financial assistance. This relates to the committee's report. We expressed some concern about the grandfathering issue. I would just like to draw to the attention of the Members here if you look at page 9-13, which contains some of the detail from page 9-11, the top line under student grants, you will see that we have gone from main estimates of $9.1 million for grants last year, to $8.4 million in this main estimate. We did not spend all that we had expected we would spend in the current year. On page 9-12 under student financial assistance, there is a drop from the 2000-2001 revised estimates to the 2001-2002 main estimates of some $219,000 for student financial assistance, most of which is going to loans officers' salaries. Due to the increased number of loans as opposed to grants, I understand that is one of the reasons we are seeing the change from $9.1 million to $8.4 million. It is a change from a majority of grants to more loans.

I would like to point out that we have taken program money here and turned it into salaries.