Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I enjoyed going through the supp, and the meetings that we've had over the last few days. I expressed my frustration to the Finance Minister at the time, that there were, and are, quite a few items in this supp that, quite frankly, I don't understand, and obviously I won't be supporting them. I will encourage other Members of this House to finally say no to some of these things.

The issue that I'd like to bring up first is that of the transfer of $30 million from the Housing Corporation over to ECE, and the fact that now ECE is looking at hiring 11 positions. Now in the supp, Mr. Chairman, that only amounts to about $460,000. I think there's $183,000 in one-time costs, and about $266,000 or $277,000 in the costs to get us through this year. What's not in the supp, Mr. Chairman, is the fact that, on an ongoing basis, this creation of 11 new positions to look after the social policy side of things within ECE is going to cost this government $1.2 million. To me, that's just not on, and I'm not going to mince words, or sugar coat anything. I think it stinks, and I think the government did not do its homework when looking at this transfer of funds from the Housing Corporation over to ECE. There should have been some positions that were earmarked to go along with the $30 million, and, Mr. Chairman, there weren't. I think the onus now has to be put back on the government to go and revisit this, and come up with the positions within the Housing Corporation, or from within existing resources, to fund it.