Thank you, Madam Chair. Perhaps we can put that on the AOC agenda to review the report, but I just want to put on the record that I think that that is not to say that I accept the boundaries being set and looking at this issue from the point of view of who is technically NGO and who is not and thereby excluding or making just those two organizations that we are looking at here as the only ones that are eligible.

I think we do the same for many...We provide funding for many different governments and organizations, NGOs and all sorts of issues. I think that it is inadequate for us that we don't have a set policy right now on how do we show that we value the work that the NGOs provide and that we understand that they have to contend with everyday cost of living and inflation area pressures. It is not to say that we have to keep on increasing the funding, but it is simply saying...and I think there should be a government policy that recognizes the reality of cost of doing business that keeps going up. If we do value some of the programs that these NGOs are delivering on our behalf, some of them are very essential to the well being of our residents in all communities, then we have to step up to the plate and see what kinds of things we can do to help them with that, rather than trying to say that, on the basis of this study or that study, we have found a way to distinguish them from those who are able to get incremental increases from this government. As long as the Premier and the government is willing to approach this issue with the attitude of trying to fix it rather than trying to defend what is in place now, then I would be happy to work with the AOC committee to see how we could come to improve this situation as we haven't now. Thank you, Madam Chair.