Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to cover all three subjects that the honourable Member has made reference to. The DEA situation in Hay River, I understand what the Member is saying, I am open-minded about it. I have spoken with the Member on this and we are prepared to continue to talk. There are challenges for me, Mr. Chairman, because of the implications, and they stretch beyond Hay River.
I understand what the Member is saying, that this is not the world's end of money, but if we can do it in Hay River, we can do it in other communities in the Territories. That is one of the challenges, Mr. Chairman. I have tried to state that to the Hay River individuals to understand that I cannot just say yes, go ahead because of this. I am prepared to continue to work to see if we can find some sort of process that makes sense, but I do have challenges in this. I will leave it at that.
On the harmonization, we have delayed the implementation to give us an opportunity to address the specific issue that has very rightfully been brought forward by the Members, that individuals were not notified of the exact amounts of the rents, if they were receiving a rent increase. We need to do that. We need to get out there to tell those in the public who are going to be negatively affected by this of what kind of effect they will face. Additionally, we want to ensure that we are fair in the process, Mr. Chairman.
The third item, on day cares, we are putting $1 million more into day cares. It increases substantially the amount of support for a day care operator for startup, for O and M, operating and maintenance, Mr. Chairman, because we recognize that it was skimpy going for a lot of these operations. Most of them are volunteer, some of them are private businesses, but it is almost impossible to keep them operating on the kind of money they were being supported in. This, of course, is for licensed day cares, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.