Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank each of you for coming today.
Mr. Hewett, I also want to commend you on ending your report on the positive side. It's always good to hear that there's hope out there, when you always hear doom and gloom. It's good to know there are some positive things happening, especially in northern Ontario. My riding of Sudbury, of course, is well known for being the mining capital of Canada, if not of the world, and many of our peers throughout northern Ontario have been hit hard, in the forestry sector and in general in manufacturing, in many of the value-added products that come from both of those sectors.
As I mentioned, you've talked a lot about those sectors and about how the commodity-based resources have been on a downturn and about access to credit being difficult. One of the things we're hearing in northern Ontario is that it's getting more difficult also to access FedNor. FedNor is a program that of course is in Industry Canada—it's a program, not a stand-alone—so some of my questions are going to be specific to FedNor. Hopefully you'll be able to answer some of those.
Vis-à-vis other regional development agencies, can you explain to me the system and how the amounts of funding that go into FedNor are determined? Would you be able to explain that to me?