Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Of course, we’re prepared to work with the Member and, as we indicated in our meetings with the small, rural, remote communities committee, the idea of sitting down with the committee and some of the members from the communities and Association of Communities would help us initiate that process.
I would like to point out, though, that while we managed to keep government expenditures to 2 percent, the money that flowed through the communities was kept at 9 percent in recognition of the fact that there are needs at the community level.
So I take the Member’s concern and we’ll have those discussions about working with communities to see how we can best move on the priorities from constituencies in communities.