Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, I believe that the $1.5 million in ongoing future years that we're hoping to lever from the federal government will both flow through the department and through the Arctic Energy Alliance, depending on the program. Obviously one of the reasons for having the Arctic Energy Alliance is it provides us a mechanism to flow federal money easily to consumers so that they can be involved in programs to help reduce their reliance on fossil fuels and other initiatives. I think the past funding level of $200,000 for this agency through RWED, there is the $300,000 for this other program that we talked about earlier, but it allows us to do things like energy audits and it has an educative mandate. The Power Corporation also funds this organization. We are partners with the Power Corporation
in this. But I think it is a very tangible way that we can lever our federal investment in this regard, and I think that there will be more and more federal investment in this area in future. Certainly we can have some discussion about the mandate of this agency. Where there is duplication, if there is duplication, I certainly think it makes sense to sit down and address that and talk about it. I know this is something that the Member has been raising for a number of years, and I'm certainly prepared to enter into that discussion. But I do believe we need a mechanism that allows us to take advantage of a lot of these federal programs.
I think in past we may have missed out on a lot of federal money, and I want to make sure that that doesn't happen, that wherever there are federal pots of money we can take advantage of it and I think we need a mechanism to do that. I think the Arctic Energy Alliance can allow us to do some of that. So as to mandate, we can certainly have that discussion though.