Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I understand it, and I want to be careful -- I'm not sure how much I should talk publicly about one operator -- but as I understand it, they would need a significant contribution one time, but also it would have to be an ongoing increase in the rates that are provided, and we're talking about in the tens of thousands of dollars that the operators are currently needing to see. The problem we'd have is that we would have to then make that sort of funding available to other operators equitably across the Territories. So at this point, we haven't had the money. We've been looking at this program when we were in the business planning process. We had figured that we were going to see the federal government follow through on their promise to provide us with funding that we would be able to put into the program so we could increase the subsidies to the operators, increase the subsidies to parents, and improve on access to training. We had intended to invest in all those areas and had the plans in place, but we have not seen the money that we had counted on. That's what we were looking forward to.
Charles Dent on Question 259-15(4): Day Care Services For College Students
In the Legislative Assembly on October 25th, 2005. See this statement in context.
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