He's known for insulting me, Minister, but today I'm getting lots of compliments. I think he's trying to soft-soap me for your appearance before our committee.
I'd like to start by complimenting your government on the establishment of the new mental health commission. I understand that it is going to have an addiction component to it because of the circularity of those two issues.
I'm wondering, on page 61 of the estimates, where it talks about mental health and addiction services for aboriginal people--who, after all, are your main health care responsibility or your largest direct health care responsibility--why the budget for that is going to slide between 2007 and 2009 from $125 million to $121 million next year and the year after to $110 million. While I appreciate the emphasis you're putting on mental health and addictions, the numbers don't seem to bear up under scrutiny.