Thank you, Madam Chair. Initially the clients will be able to see the programs like the senior home heating subsidy, senior citizens' supplementary benefits, income assistance, public housing rental subsidies. We're also expecting to be able to provide clients with information about student financial assistance and a number of other government and federal government income security programs. So our goal is to make sure that, in particular, income security programs are starting to focus in these offices. Whether or not we will be able to bring in other departments to those offices, we would think in the long run that would be the right way to go, but whether or not we'll be able to get there in the next year, I think that might be a bit optimistic. But I would agree with the Member that it would make sense for us to start moving in that direction. It would certainly help to ease some of the confusion in communities about where people have to go, stop some of them from having to go back and forth from office to office, and it may help us to be more economic in how we deliver our programs. So it is our goal to make sure that these offices can be looked at, eventually, as broader than just Education, Culture and Employment offices.
Charles Dent on Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 15th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 14th, 2006
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