There are always challenges. There is no guarantee, but with more funding we generally manage to do more. I will give you a very specific example that will illustrate your question very well. The last round of negotiations for the agreements began in 2004. Consultations were held with a view to concluding the agreements for 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007 -2008 and 2008-2009. Those agreements were renewed. So in March 2009, I will receive the same funding that was agreed on in 2004.
So everybody has to keep on going with the same funding we were receiving in 2004. With that funding, I have to pay my employees, travel, and so on. At the time, in 2003-2004, heating oil cost 57¢ a litre. The last bill I received showed that it now costs $1.02 a litre. Yet I am not receiving more money to help me pay those bills, so I have to cut elsewhere, something that is becoming more and more difficult. However, everyone is facing the same problems.
My spouse works for the Yukon government. Over the same period, her salary was increased six times. In the Yukon, I don't know many private-sector employees who have received no pay increases. In fact, it's the opposite—we have full employment, almost no unemployment, except the structural unemployment among those who cannot work in the winter, for example. There is an unprecedented economic boom in the west. We had the Canada Games in 2007, and the Olympic Games are coming up. Alberta has an oil boom. We have difficulty keeping and recruiting employees. All that to say that it is difficult to keep going today with the same funding we were receiving in 2004.