Mr. Chairman, I have no problem with supporting the recommendation. The only problem I have is making it a priority. I have talked with some Members about the whole issue of salaries and benefits for care givers, alcohol and drug treatment workers, home makers, even people who work in family violence shelters. What does this do to those
kinds of initiatives we want to see go ahead? My concern is what we give in some areas, we take away from other areas.
I just want to make sure that when it comes time to bring these issues forward, we don't say that we already have given priority to other areas and that we should stick to those first. It takes away the priorities that other Members may have. I can tell you right now, Mr. Chairman, that as far as youth programs going to Providence, things are going well there already. They are organizing a trip to Edmonton for a youth conference on dream capture, for example. They are doing a lot of fund raising and so on, to do these kinds of things. I don't know whether that is more positive than trying to come up with new dollars and give it to them outright, without a second thought about what it might do to them in the future.