Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I listened closely to what the Minister had replied to me and I'd like to thank him for his reply. I don't want the Minister to think that I don't believe that government is important in the smaller communities, of course I do. I believe it's vitally important, Mr. Chairman, which is all the more reason why I question government spending whenever I get a chance to and I'm critical of government spending in areas where I don't think we're going to get the value for the dollar. I think we have to be spending money in areas where we're going to get tangible results. That's what I believe in. Again, I just don't understand, you know, if we do have a framework, let's say we have a framework, what are the people in this policy shop going to do on a day-to-day basis? Plan how we spend our 180 or 190-odd million

that we have in left field? What are they going to do every day, Mr. Chairman?