Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we are not losing any of the federal contribution. The federal contribution is continuing to flow. All of the money that we are receiving in ECE from the federal contribution will be flowed through to the Literacy Council to continue on with their very important programming. I outlined yesterday, during Committee of the Whole, a number of the areas in which we are losing the funding. The biggest one is the one that the Member for Sahtu raised, and that is the language nests. That amounts for about $900,000 of the total that we would no longer have to put forward. I don't think anybody has said that this hasn't turned out to be a very good program. I have talked about it with my Cabinet colleagues and we are anxious to see if there's a way to fund these important programs, particularly ones like the language nests. But at this point, we haven't been able to find the money to free up to put into these programs. With all the priorities that we have to deliver just on the programs within Education, I don't have $1 million to move around that easily. So it has to be one that has to be found elsewhere, and we haven't found that yet. Thank you.
Charles Dent on Question 81-15(3): Early Childhood Development Program Funding
In the Legislative Assembly on March 25th, 2004. See this statement in context.
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