Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm glad to hear that the Minister is looking forward to making some changes in the program. I just wanted to ask the Minister about some of the client information that trickles down to the grassroots level from the policies that are in the Income Support Program. A lot of the income support officers in the communities don't have the information available to them to present to clients to make a lot of productive choices. They don't have information on human resource capacity building programs with the federal government; therefore, they can't pass them on to the clients to make some productive choices, and they don't have information on the jobs available in the mines, training programs and such. So a lot of these officers basically are being blamed by their clients for the lack of information they receive and the lack of support and reassessment in the whole program that they're delivering. I just want to ask the Minister if he would be willing to provide some direction to the Income Support Program management that information for human resource capacity building, job creation, education and all that, that he makes sure that all this information does get down to the grassroots where the people really need it. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Robert Villeneuve on Question 226-15(3): Addressing Income Support Inconsistencies
In the Legislative Assembly on October 15th, 2004. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 226-15(3): Addressing Income Support Inconsistencies
Question 226-15(3): Addressing Income Support Inconsistencies
Item 6: Oral Questions
October 14th, 2004
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