Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question would be directed to the Minister responsible for Health and Social Services. It is a line of questioning I will follow on as we go through our session days here. I started in the area of justice.
It comes in the area of traditional knowledge and healing. There are a number of things included in that title. Again, when I had opportunity to visit home on the weekend, I had a call from a concerned constituent regarding some of the practices that are now starting to unfold in some of the communities.
It is more the relevancy of certain traditions that are now being put forward out there by groups that are funded either through this government or third party funding. I would like to know from the Minister of Health and Social Services, when they give out third party funding, do they have any monitoring of how those expenditures are done and if they are relevant, in a sense, to the field they are operating in?
I will give you a specific example, Mr. Speaker. In Education, Culture and Employment, religion classes, as they call them, or local programming as they were titled, were allowed at one time during school hours and now have been cut because they are considered unconstitutional because it deals with just one religion.
I would like to know, in that aspect, in the Department of Health and Social Services, does it monitor when it gives out funding if the groups receiving that money are following that criteria? Thank you.