The two main cuts are to the CDI, which I think is just a tremendous loss. We were seeing the start-up of lots of new co-ops through the CDI initiative. I think it was solid cooperative development and job creation.
With regard to the other cuts to the co-op secretariat, it will take some time to see whether we will be able to have access to the kind of information about cooperatives that we have had in the past. There are all kinds of sources of information about business and the economy, but this was one of the main sources, and perhaps the most reliable source, of information about cooperatives: how many people work in them; their sales; their surpluses; and their losses, if they had losses. This could be a tremendous loss to cooperatives generally because it will give us less and less ability to understand the role that cooperatives play in the Canadian economy.
I'm hoping we will see a refocusing, perhaps in the Department of Industry, which may have been in some ways a more appropriate home, but there needs to be a home somewhere for a focus on cooperatives in the federal government.