Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to thank Mr. Roland for his budget speech yesterday. I didn't have a chance to shake his hand until this afternoon. Just a few general comments I'd like to make with regard to the budget speech.

I agree in looking at the $300 million debt limit, but I agree that if we can show that we can finance the debt, I think it's a good move to make.

A couple other things here, too, are with regard to the expenditure measures. One of the things I found interesting was how government has prioritized what's important in terms of where spending should go. To me it's going to be important because there are quite a few issues in my riding that I will address during the main estimates review.

With regard to the devolution/resource revenue sharing, I think it's very important that we have something in place. Hopefully the deadline for 2006 will be reached. Let's not forget that the federal government will have their budget speech either later this month or early next month. Depending on that, Madam Chair, I think it's going to be important.