Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The assessment of the programs that were funded under the early childhood framework for action has begun. I am hoping to have the assessments completed before the end of April so that we can assess where the priority areas would be for putting funding if we are able to find any new funding for that program. That was the Member's first question.
The second question was why we have not been able to find money for the program. The issue has been one of restraint, as was pointed out by Ms. Lee in her statement today. The budget that we brought forward didn't leave us much opportunity for innovation. We brought forward basically the budget that had been prepared by the previous government and, in fact, I was given the responsibility of bringing that forward and cutting further from it before presenting it in this House. There wasn't a lot of flexibility to move monies around to find money for this area because of other priority areas in the department. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.