Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, when the Standing Committee on Social Programs was reviewing the draft mains with the Minister and the department, we had a significant amount of discussion with the Minister about the problems that day care operators were having with running their operations in the North. It is not just a situation where they are running into fiscal problems because the subsidies are not enough. It is a problem because they are often run by volunteers who sometimes do not have specialized training. We thought that it would be probably beneficial if the operators could gain access to better supports.

I would like to note that earlier this session, I asked the Minister if he would commit to providing a board training package. I have received a letter from him confirming that by this fall, ECE and MACA will have a board training and support program that will be available for board members to call on to help them develop, to help them with planning their financial resources and so on.

One of the areas that we also saw as being important was not just in terms of support to board members, but support that the board members or the operators could call on a regular basis when they ran into problems. This means better resources at the regional centres, at headquarters, so the people in the centres could pick up the phone, call and get some assistance when they wanted some advice, or they could call and they could have somebody come out and help them when they had problems.

Therefore, the committee would like to present a motion. Mr. Chairman,