Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I'm going to take issue with the $108,000 that's being proposed for additional costs incurred for the communication and administration of the community capacity building initiative, for a number of reasons. I think I heard the Minister say that the $108,000 was actually going to come out of interest that was going to be built up by the money that was sitting in the bank somewhere and that's how they were proposing to pay for it. I think communities need to determine their priorities for themselves, and I don't know how having somebody there and paying them this kind of money is going to help this along. I think if the government wants to do something like this, we have adequate resources in place within MACA to carry this type of work out. I don't understand for a second
why we'd want to rush out and hire somebody again in a full-time position for 2005-2006. If you look at it from outside, why can't regional superintendents or folks in the regions carry out some of this work? Why do we have to look at spending $108,000 for the remainder of this year on a position like this when staff at the regional level can carry the work out? I'd like the Minister to explain to me why it is that we need to incur this type of expenditure when we have staff in place already. Thank you, Mr. Chairman