Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to be clear that this motion deletes just over $200,000, so it will not allow more on the ground people in communities, in schools, language, educators. This motion just deletes money from the budget, and even though the Member's vision might be to add in programs and services, this motion cannot and does not accomplish that. So I just want us to all be clear that that's what we're talking about here.
I do think there's a place for us working with the department in terms of their business plans and the way they do things to try to encourage more on the ground programs, and that's a different discussion. But I feel at the moment we're micromanaging their operational matters, and I just don't think that we have enough information or basis for making the decision to just cut this budget by 200 and some thousand dollars. Thank you, Mr. Chair.