Well, we were going to wait to get to that later. Certainly one of the things you can do is to look at the funding challenges. We've been at the exact same funding level in friendship centres since 1996, the last time there was departmental spending review of any significance. We received a 25% reduction in our funding program, and we've been at the exact same level ever since.
I know there has been a lot of talk about MPs and senators and cabinet ministers having their salaries frozen. These front-line service providers have had their salaries frozen since 1996. It has been a 50% reduction in real terms in today's dollars.
These agencies are really having tremendous challenges, based on those kinds of numbers, to provide long-lasting services that have an impact to prevent poverty, to prevent these kinds of downstream investments that are going to be required in justice and health care and all these other areas.
We'd be happy to provide a brief in terms of the funding challenges and for the committee to consider recommendations based on that.