Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My colleague Mr. Komarnicki has commented as far as the aspect of the national budget. The other aspect I want to clarify is that it says “increase” and it doesn't talk about how much. I think the figure was somewhere around $7 million, which I heard from somewhere. There's no reference to how much increase is recommended. How much are we asking to increase the budget?
We're adding $10 million a year for the next two years. Unfortunately, I wasn't here in 2005 when the study was done. Maybe somebody who was here might enlighten me a bit as far as how the provincial regulations that set the wage--as Mr. Lessard noted, it's under provincial jurisdiction--play into what the budget is today and given the 10% increase proposed for the next two years.