Turning to the third question you had about the provinces, the local jurisdictions, and the federal jurisdictions, of course it's extremely important.

It's going to be local capacities and the local NGOs that are going to be the real instruments for change in this regard.

It is a local jurisdiction, and there is a certain aspect of owning the jurisdiction.

Of the remainder, 15 per cent comes from the social services budgets of local authorities, 3 per cent is covered by the Mental Health Grant (a ring-fenced grant for mental health services made available to local authorities by central government) and the balance comes from other sources, including user charges.

Two amendments to SPDs were analysed at the end of 2002. The first of these was the Basque Country SPD, which experienced a minor re-allocation of appropriations between funding priorities, to reflect the re-allocation of several infrastructure projects run at local and provincial level to the correct measures. Secondly, the Balearic Islands SPD, where, to improve the management of the assistance, appropriations were transferred from the ESF to the ERDF and alterations made to ERDF appropriations by priority (the budget for the "environment" priority was increased and those for the priorities "competitiveness and employment" and "local a ...[+++]nd urban development" reduced).

Mr. Dhillon: Yes, our personal view on this matter is that the conventional wisdom is that you go into a new country or a foreign market and you rely on local expertise or local know-how or on the expatriates that are settled in Canada.