Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do appreciate the honourable Member for raising the question and I do have the information. The two communities that are involved in the community pilot project -- which are getting ready for the transfer of social assistance to Education, Culture and Employment -- that affects the government liaison officer positions, one is located in Arviat. The GLO was co-located to the Health and Social Services area office in January and the focus for this project is to provide more employment career counselling to employable clients.
In Baker Lake, the government liaison officer co-located to the Health and Social Services area office in January and the project will provide employment career counselling to employable clients.
In Coppermine, the executive services officer, ESO, will issue social assistance from his office and will also offer employment career counselling to employable clients. The pilot will begin in March with an annual caseload of 954.
In the case of Rankin Inlet, the community social services worker co-located from Health and Social Services area to the career centre in January, with the entire Social Services annual caseload of 1,368.
Those are some of the income support pilot initiatives that have been undertaken. I believe that the same opportunity was offered to the Baffin communities and we did not receive any proposals and as such, did not proceed with pilot initiatives in those communities. Now that does not, Mr. Speaker, rule out the possibility of maybe us responding to the concerns that the honourable Members have raised in this House if their communities are inclined. In some cases, the municipal councils are actually involved. Cape Dorset is one where the social services are being delivered from the community and, as such, they're dealing with these particular issues.