As the minister has indicated, it has always welcomed the historic work of the round table on a wide variety of issues. The reality is that the exact kind of analysis of trying to bring together sustainable development—i.e., the marriage of meeting economic and environmental goals—is conducted by a lot of other organizations. So this reality, being in a time when there is an effort sought to reduce expenditures, it was felt that it was logical to make a cut in an instance where the kind of work being done would be done by others and not draw on public resources.
