Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the Member's comments. We agree and if you'll notice in my opening comments I did say that this would take some time for us to work through. I was only talking about those that we have in the hopper right now. I wasn't talking about all 17 of the programs that the Member was talking about. We have a limited scope that we're dealing with right now and it will be a challenge to rationalize our approach to them, but that's the goal and if we can start with a good policy base, a good understanding, good acceptance of what the underlying policy of all of our programs are, I think we have a good chance of affecting a change that will mean that people understand why we're providing supports, where we provide supports and how to get them. That's important because right now with so many different places to go for them, people get frustrated because they don't know how to access programs, they don't know what they're supposed to be able to get and they don't know what is expected of them when they graduate from a program, for instance.
So I think that we are on the right track. It's going to take some time and I'm going to have to work closely with my colleagues in the House, the standing committees, to make sure we're headed down the right path. But I am committed to doing that, consulting regularly with Members and we're going to use the information that we get through the strategic plan update and once we have our policy in place then we'll start the work on consultations with NGOs and public groups to make sure that we're doing things that we should.
There's one thing I forgot to mention early on. The Member, when he first started his comments, was quite complimentary of the staff and the department. I'd like to thank him very much for that. I would agree that we have a very dedicated and hard-working staff and I appreciate the Member putting that on the record. Thank you.