Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, over the last couple of years we've been working hard in the department to expand our youth programs. Last year we were able to expand our program funding by another half a million dollars to run a number of pilot projects. We have a number of projects that have been very successful. Over this last while, a lot of communities have been applying for the Community Initiatives Program, which has a budget of $1 million to use towards building and constructing of infrastructure and these have included youth drop-in centres or youth centres. We've encouraged communities to do that and we've supported it because most of these communities have identified sources for operation and maintenance and the bulk of the money is coming from the federal government. We have, I think, six communities right now that are being currently funded through the Youth Centre Funding Program. The community that the honourable Member is mentioning has not applied for this funding. We'd gladly work with him to apply for these dollars. However, we do not, as a government, have a program dedicated towards the operation and maintenance of youth centres. We have identified it as something that there may be a need to address. We have scheduled a youth conference for January of this year. This is one of the subjects that we'd like to talk about, is some of the needs that communities across the North will be focused on. Thank you.
Michael McLeod on Question 102-15(5): Operations Funding For Youth Centres
In the Legislative Assembly on October 17th, 2006. See this statement in context.
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