Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to make a general comment on this recommendation number 5. The idea here is to try to get additional help to the victims' assistance task and this department, by allocating the $300,000 from the activity of justice and corrections. This funding should be integrated into the community wellness strategy. This is a recommendation that the committee would prefer to see happen but the Minister is indicating that the funding level in the justice and corrections activity is forced growth and cannot be changed. Maybe later on in a few months or so, they might figure out how to accommodate this recommendation but what I would like to see here is a more solid commitment, so that we would know for sure that there's going to be something there to accommodate this recommendation. If we could have something now. I think it looks like there's nothing there right now except a promise to look at it in the next two or three months. I would certainly like to see something come out of this session to accommodate this recommendation. I don't want to have any surprises here so I think that as we have our discussion and general comments, and as we get into the activities that deal with that, I would like to let the Minister know that the Members of the committee have indicated that they would seriously consider deferring that activity until later on in the process, to see if we could have some time between now and then to get something more concrete out of this recommendation. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Jim Antoine on Committee Motion 35-12(7): To Adopt Recommendation 6, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on April 4th, 1995. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 35-12(7): To Adopt Recommendation 6, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
April 3rd, 1995
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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