Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In the months leading to the last expiry of the aboriginal justice strategy money, the workers, unfortunately, were running around lobbying hard because their funding was about to expire, was about to be cut off. They were doing all sorts of things trying to get their money back when they should have been doing the good work, the excellent work, they are doing. I know the minister thinks they're doing excellent work. We, as Liberals, had to push and push in committee and in the House of Commons, and I know the minister was supporting it, and they finally got that funding reinstated, which is the good news.
The bad news is that these organizations, now that they're up and running and they've proved their success—I know the minister thinks it's a success, and I compliment him for that—are asking for permanent, ongoing funding. I wonder if the minister would make a commitment to the longer-term funding that these people are asking for, for this excellent program. It's an integral part of the justice system now, just as prosecutors and judges are.