Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we initiated a letter writing campaign and brought our intentions to the federal Minister regarding our concerns in the area of volunteerism. We have supported this whole initiative since it began. We feel it's very worthy
and we're quite concerned that the federal government has made these cuts. They have responded to us, indicating that they are not intending to restore any funding in this area so it has left us in a real difficult situation. However, we are looking at providing some money from our own resources, Mr. Speaker, and we're looking at reinstating some of the funding, not to the level that they were being funded by the federal government, but we're planning to put $50,000 towards volunteerism in this coming year. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.