Mr. Speaker, the Member asked if we've been able to find any areas that we could cut to provide funding for this important program. I'd have to say looking for $1.2 million may sound like it's easy in a department that's got $214 million in the books, but if you take out all of the contributions, there really is less than 15 percent of that total budget that's available for any discretion at all and finding a million dollars out of that is very difficult.

I certainly would not be prepared to tell this House that I'm not proceeding with the language boards. I think the Special Committee on Official Languages heard loud and clear from people across the North that they want to see that sort of service. So we are planning to proceed with implementing those two boards. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.