We'll have to cut you off there, Guy.
I went and looked 10 years back. On the 2005-06 fiscal year, ACOA was voted an expropriation of $456 million. They spent $427 million. ACOA's current budget is about $298 million. That's not Prince Edward Island's allocation, but that's for ACOA, so it is substantially less. We put the question to some other regional development agencies in here: would more money be helpful? We're looking at making recommendations to the Minister of Finance.
There are two questions: would more money be helpful, and are our regional development agencies achieving the results we want them to?
I asked New Brunswick earlier and Prince Edward Island is even worse. We've had ACOA in place for quite a number of years, yet our productivity in Prince Edward Island is the lowest in the country. We're not retaining immigrants. We're losing young people to out-migration. Our small business sector in terms of export is one of the lowest in the country.
You mentioned a number of good things in your presentation. I agree with you 100% on those, but if we don't improve, then we're going to continue to fall behind. What does ACOA or the federal government have to do to get the results we need to attain so our kids and grandkids will come back to Atlantic Canada and work there?