Madam Speaker, my colleague brings forward a very valid point, as it goes back to the vision thing.
“Atlantic Canada: Catching Tomorrow's Wave” and the other programs we talked about were visionary elements of five to ten years out, from which the benefits are still being reaped in my riding and, as a matter of fact, all over Atlantic Canada.
ACOA was given that responsibility and duty, which it followed through admirably, of putting money throughout the entire region to help people in traditional industries diversify their economies and become that much better within the communities.
The one over, year over year funding does not lend itself toward a visionary policy, and that is the biggest disappointment of all.