Mr. Speaker, those are two instances of, how shall I say it, projects which are planned but which, as the member indicates now, have not yet been executed.
I was looking through a document just last week. It was a list of government projects and allocations. I was surprised that the money for those allocations had not yet been taken up and we had drifted down through one or two fiscal years. What happens is that the money is allocated, the project is planned, and for reasons such as the Ottawa bureaucracy or the local bureaucracy, perhaps, things get in the way of the orderly execution of some of these programs.
I do not for a minute doubt that the insulation problem the member referred to has to be addressed. I am delighted that the money has been set aside. Whatever the impediments are I wish that they were not there, but someone has to grab the bull by the horns and make those projects fly.
That is true across the whole aboriginal community, but it is not just aboriginal Canadians who have this problem. I have just described the list I mentioned. It happens in the big cities too. We would think that if people had $10,000 or $20,000 for a project they would grab it and run with it, but no, there are elements missing in the orderly spending of that money, so the government does not let the money go and it carries on from year to year.