Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I won't take too much time. There is just one more point that I wanted to ask for some clarification from the Minister on. I think most Members on this side of the House have felt that this past budget was fairly thin on initiatives and money for the social agenda. We have been urging the government to put its money where its mouth is, so to speak, Mr. Chairman. I am not sure that we see the kind of spending, the kind of effort in this area that we wanted to see. Our committee has asked the Minister for some response to some of these questions in the area of the social agenda. I was a little intrigued by a recent response from the Minister in speaking to the social agenda when he talks about the Intergovernmental Forum and the fact that he's using that vehicle to contact leadership to invite them to identify representatives to participate in an implementation group that just in general does some things, but is in the area of the social agenda. This tripartite negotiation process, to this point in my mind, has had a dual mandate of dealing with devolution and resource revenue sharing. If this is indeed expanding the mandate of the IGF to include the social agenda, that's certainly something that needs some discussion.

As you know, Mr. Chairman, the Regular Members are represented in that process. We have a Member who sits in on IGF meetings as an observer and our indication from the last meeting was that there was a message that was quite clearly articulated from the Minister of DIAND, Minister Nault, that he wasn't prepared to entertain an expansion and a broadening of the IGF mandate. In fact, I think he felt that this would this would muddy the waters and wanted to keep things focused on devolution and resource revenue sharing. So I am interested to see that it seems that the Minister of Heath and Social Services is intending to broaden the mandate of that body and I am wondering if he could shed some light on this and clarify it. Maybe I am misreading the response that he's given.