Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, everyone. Thank you for being here with us and thank you for your presentations.
My questions will be mainly for Mr. Robineau and Mr. Robillard. I assume that the fact that we are asking you so many questions must be symptomatic of the entire Canadian population's attraction to the north. I haven't yet had the opportunity to go there, and I still hope we will complete our study on the north by visiting the official language communities there.
First of all, I'm going to ask a few questions on the figures appearing in the roadmap. Your organization, which was founded in 2009, receives $400,000. Is that in fact the case? Do you consider that amount reasonable? In your opinion, does this mean that you are underfunded in view of your needs and what they actually cost? I suppose that, if the cost of living is twice as high in the north, carrying out activities there cannot be cheap either.
When I look at the expenditures column in particular, I see that there were no expenses in 2009-2010, but that's normal since your organization had just been established. We give you the time to get started. In 2011, you spent approximately $100,000. Do you believe you will exhaust your budget, that you will lack money or that you will have a surplus this year?