The minister responsible for ACOA has made it very clear that there have been no budget cuts to ACOA yet. We hope the government will not cut that approach, because, as I said before, the amount of money that goes out through ACOA to support industry in Atlantic Canada is nowhere near the amount that goes out through Industry Canada to Ontario, Quebec, and other parts of the country.
On October 24th, 2006. See this statement in context.