Your question was whether or not we are committed to ACOA: the answer is yes. This agency is I think doing what it is mandated to do, which is to try to help businesses and Atlantic Canadians improve their earned income—which is our actual mandate.
But when you talk about the actual spending and what you refer to as cuts, if you compare the spending of 2011-12—it was $330 million—to the actual spending of $408 million in 2010, that is a decrease of 19% or $78 million. The variances in actual profiles are due to a decrease of $700,000 in operating expenditures and a decrease of $77.3 million in grants and contributions.
The variance in grants and contributions, which you seem to deplore, has to be understood, because it is mainly attributable to the completion of initiatives under the Canada economic action plan, which represents decreases as follows. I mean—