I’m still not convinced that we will not lapse any money in this coming fiscal year and I’m not too sure what mechanisms the Minister speaks about ensuring that it doesn’t happen in the future. Of course, the amount of emphasis and efforts and concern that we as MLAs have with regard to our aboriginal languages is something that we have to ensure that we’re doing our best to get those resources out to the communities. At the same time, my concern is that we’re saying no to grassroots proposals that are out there saying all the money is spent, but I’m still not convinced that’s the case. I don’t want to get into too much detail, but certainly there are probably organizations or groups out there that are hanging onto their money until the last minute but they cannot spend it. So there’s got to be a way of monitoring it, of redistributing those resources as quickly as we can before the fiscal year ends, or even have the ability... The Minister can have the ability to ensure that the funds get out the door by March 31st , the

end of this fiscal year. At the same time, there’s got to be… I know that sometimes funding is just rolled over into another organization from one year into the next. But if these organizations aren’t performing, why are we just rolling over yearly funding contributions if they’re not performing? So that’s what they actually should be looking at. Who’s getting the money and who’s not spending it is my concern and should be the Minister’s concern as well. It’s something that he should track. If they’re historically not utilizing the funding, we have to find out why and ensure that there’s redistribution for the people that have the good projects. It’s probably not only my region, but the frustration of many other communities that have community-based projects that probably have the same letter as my organization did, like, all the funds are expended. So there has to be flexibility there. There has to be monitoring. There has to be full assessment of who is getting the money and who is not using it on an annual basis, because over a couple of years there is certainly a trend developing.

That is, once again, the Minister can comment on that there, Mr. Chairman, in his best efforts not to lapse any money for 2009-10 year and then to develop a good streamline mechanism for the budget year that we are talking about today there, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.