Mr. Chair, in the last while, as we moved forward to try to work towards giving communities more autonomy, we have recognized that there are a lot of needs out there in the communities. There are the capacity needs and, of course, the need to be able to deal with all the resource development that is happening. There is also the need to deal with some of the infrastructure requirements that exist in the communities, tax-based and the non-tax-based.
So, in fact, in the last while, I think our responsibility, at least I feel has increased. We've tried to put more people on the ground. We've tried to bring in more programs that will increase capacity to try to move forward towards the communities delivering their own programs and making their own decisions. I tell you, it's a real challenge in some communities. Other communities are basically ready to do a lot of this stuff, but it also means that we have to address that there is a lot of need out there. We don't plan to reduce our staffing levels for the next while. We have
some new positions in our budget, including our budget, but those positions we've all brought in as term positions. Some of them are for two years and some of them are for three years. We expect to have a lot of this stuff in place and work through some of the complications and some of the challenges that are going to be coming up as we move forward and give them more authority and more responsibility.