Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess this is probably one of these issues that probably a motion will be coming forward on this one, but just the $460,000 for the income security portion of this supplementary. There's $183,000 one-time start-up; $277,000, associated salaries and benefits, 11 new positions. Gee. When we went through the Housing Corporation, I didn't see 11 positions being cut when this Income Security program was transferred over to ECE. I would support it if we did see some 10.75 positions being deleted out of the Housing Corporation that used to manage this program. I don't know how the Department of Education, Culture and Employment figures it needs 11 positions to manage, to basically cut cheques for the LHOs. That is all this $30 million transfer is, just to transfer from one department to the next, that basically gives us block funding to the LHO level. That is the Public Housing Program money.
Why they need start-up and implementation costs, I don't even understand that either, because I know the Department of Education, Culture and Employment has income support workers in the communities already that also deal with rental housing subsidies, and rents, and whatnot. I would just like to ask the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, how does $460,000 make it seamless, as he states in here? I just don't see where he gets, or how he can substantiate half a million dollars for something like this that the Housing Corporation managed without cutting any positions or adding positions. Why the 11 positions?