Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I understand that I said $78 million was in the main estimates last year. In fact it was only $78,000. So we had $78,000 in last year's main estimates. In the course of the year we approved $1.3 million in supplementaries, $1 million of that for Maximizing Northern Employment and $300,000 for the Mackenzie Valley development contributions. We are asked to approve a significant increase over that $1.3 million to $1.9 million and yet we are seeing a decrease in Maximizing Northern Employment.

The Minister just said that we need to get ready for oil and gas development. I agree with him 100 percent, but I think that we have to make sure that our residents in those areas who are going to be impacted by oil and gas development in particular are ready to take advantage of those opportunities. That is what I understood the Maximizing Northern Employment program to be. So why would we not keep the money in that program if that was the goal here?