Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to make a couple of comments again. The first one being along the lines of compassionate travel. I think a possible area that the Minister could look at during his review is providing translators. Too many times we see an elderly couple or elderly person who wants his wife to come with him because he knows it may be his last trip. However, his wife cannot travel with him because she cannot speak English.

It may be a solution to have an additional position or additional funding arrangement for translators on top of an escort. However, I am glad to see that there will be a review.

I also think that, and this was raised to me yesterday, that the per kilometre compensation for persons using their vehicles should be reviewed. It is not up to par, as I understand, to what government travel is and certainly not comparable when they use taxis or charter aircraft. That is another area I am hoping we will see as part of the review.

A couple of other things on a different note. Over the holidays, I was very concerned when some members of my communities who were foster parents brought to my attention that a lot of the children who were in foster care were being returned home to their families, be it their parents or their grandparents, and that there was a possibility that social workers would be going on Christmas holidays. I think during the Christmas holidays is really a high risk. Certainly by all standards it is a troubled time for social programs, and to have children returned home and have no one in the community monitoring the program is a great concern.

We managed to get the situation rectified and there were workers in the community, but is there a policy or any kind of mechanism that we could ensure that the social workers are available during the holidays?

I do not want to go as far as to say that we should declare them an essential service, but I feel that because they are dealing with a lot of children and children who are in a foster care situation, that we have to have some kind of supervision, especially when there are community events or holidays.