I want to thank the minister for her answer, but I do have some other questions, so I'd like a chance to ask them. If we could have short answers, I could ask more questions, obviously.
Minister, you have said you're spending more than $80 million on a number of initiatives, but in fact this isn't just for adult literacy, as you know. What I'd like you to agree is that your officials will provide us, by tomorrow morning, with a breakdown of federal spending by your department in the area of adult literacy in 2006-07. I don't want it now; I'd like it by tomorrow morning. I don't want to take too much time right now.
But what I would like to know is, if your cuts to literacy aren't hurting Canadians, then why is it that Wayne Baltzer, a 46-year-old in my province of Nova Scotia, who is trying to get his equivalencies, and is weeks away in fact from getting his high school equivalency diploma, feels he's been written off by this government? And why is it that we see groups like Aurora College in the Northwest Territories, and many others across the country that are doing direct literacy training or who are training literacy teachers, in fact being hurt by these cuts?
How can you say you're only cutting lobbyists and advocates? Are you misinformed? Are you misleading Canadians? Are you simply unaware of what's going on?