Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Now that the minister has calmed down a little, I would like to ask him an important question and to get an answer, or else the officials can answer me.
I'm going to talk about the delays that the communities tell us about. If they receive the money too late, they don't have time to carry out the projects they had planned and they have to return that money to the government.
Minister, you said that funding was allocated, but how much money goes back to the government because people didn't have the time to carry out the projects they had planned? How much time did they have to return it? Is there a deadline?
This is a source of major concern for the communities. It's all well and good to give the communities money, but they are required to return it because the project couldn't be carried out because they didn't receive the money on time. All too often, they have to carry out their projects too quickly and they lose their manpower.