Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Minister, for being here today.
I noted with some great degree of satisfaction the number of times throughout your comments this morning and in the paper you referred to economic development. It's sprinkled throughout. It's almost on every page, and on some pages it appears many times.
Many aboriginal leaders and business people have written over the last couple of years about the importance of the economic development among their first nations communities. Last year a number of us from this committee had the privilege of travelling to Iqaluit and Pangnirtung to see some of the benefits of SINED investments. I noted in our budget as well that we're talking about the new economic development agency for the north. I just wondered if you could help me and the committee understand how these agencies, SINED and this new economic agency...with the additional $50 million. If we could have a snapshot of some of the investments that have been made and are planned, that would be helpful to me.