Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Minister, for being here today, especially on such short notice.
First of all, Ontario, where I come from, like the rest of Canada, is really suffering some economic challenges.
As you know, Minister, I have long been a champion of this eastern Ontario development program. It was announced in the summer of 2006, when our party first took government. One of the reasons I've been a champion of that type of economic development program is that often the decisions on how that money is spent are made by the local boards of the community development corporations, which clearly reflect community priorities. I want you to expand a bit on how you see that money continuing to flow and how you see this additional money moving through the Southern Ontario Development Agency.