Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My understanding, from the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs on his explanation for this funding, is the comment on our communities and our regions that it's desperately needed to get help here. We're not on a highway system. We don't have easy access. We're slowly trying to work on getting a stand-alone region. We don't have the resources and the costs are high. The help is needed in our region. It's a huge amount of money you're asking us in our communities to administer and manage. You have accountability procedures in place that need to really be adhered to and be monitored on how we're going to do this program. The communication is not very much; it's only $10,000. There should be more than that there. But that's your side, Mr. Minister, and your government's.
You have to remember that in our region, we're dealing with a first language being aboriginal, primarily. This is only a part-time position because it's a huge roll-up for communities to understand the amount of money coming in and how it's going to be set up. Somehow we're looking at some kind of exercise in terms of devolution; devolving some of these expenditures into our communities. In our region, the prices are going up. It costs a lot of money to fly around Nunakput also. Mr. Pokiak mentioned one time what it costs to fly around in his region in one tour. For myself, I see that this type of support that we need for our regions and communities is desperately needed. So I'll be voting against the motion here.