Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just further on what the committee stated as an area of concern with increasing the loan limit to $2 million, we asked the Minister to provide us with a list of loans that were applied for in the area of $1 million over the last number of years, and the Minister did provide that information. He did state that loan applications in the area of $1 million that were received, for example last year, it was two and neither were approved. In 1999, there were two and only one approved. In 1998, three and three were approved. It is not a very high demand for the area of $1 million.

The Minister went as far as to show that in the area between $800,000 and $999,000 the amount of applications that were in that area, and again the numbers are not very high. There were none, by what I see, in 1999 or 2000 in that area. There does not seem to be a very high demand, and we know that there is much work going on in the area of oil and gas and the diamond sector, but there is a big push for this. I would like the Minister to elaborate on the need for this, and if there are people waiting for this to happen so that they can get on with their work, so to speak. Thank you.