Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to hear the Minister say he will look at budget adjustments. I had hoped that you would find areas within your department's budget to increase the funding to Maximizing Northern Employment. I would think this is an important area to make sure we have adequate funding in. I guess really the question comes down to one of priorities and have we picked the right priorities for where we are putting our money?

Not having been on the committee that reviewed the budget in detail, I guess I am right now questioning whether or not this was a good move. I am really hoping that, although I do not have the background that others might in this department, I am hoping that we will find some way to bring that money back and not through supplementary. I think we should first of all look within.

I would like to also say that we seem to have made a dramatic shift too, going from nothing in last year's main estimates to over a million dollars for Mackenzie Valley contributions. The description here says that it is related to the Non-Renewable Resources Development Strategy.

I had understood that the NRRDS strategy was a strategy that we had tabled with the federal government, demonstrating to them how there would be a significant payback for Canada if they were to invest in helping us be better prepared for development in the North. The fact that we have now started to pay for it, does that mean that we have given up on getting the federal monies? Have we basically lost and we are saying now that we are going to have to do it on our own?

If so, what sort of strategies are we funding on an ongoing basis, or putting new funding into with this $1million that we are looking at here? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.