Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the issue of parity for NGOs is a cross-government issue. It's one that's been on the agenda for many years. I don't recollect when the time was that there was automatic increases given. It must have been in another century because it's not clear in my present memory when that was. We have put out a third-party accountability as a government that lays out some of the processes to categorize NGOs and services that we get through non-government organizations that would help guide us in our assessment, a ballpark figure that we've looked at that if we were going to give automatic government raises the same as government to all the NGOs, we're looking at $100 million that we'd have to add to our budget. So it comes down to an issue of resources. No one denies the value of the service that's provided. We do have capacity for multi-year contracts, which we're going to move on. The broader issue government-wide of what do we do and how do we compensate NGOs in the type of services they provide has yet to be finalized. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 451-15(4): Support For Non-government Organizations And Frontline Workers
In the Legislative Assembly on February 23rd, 2006. See this statement in context.
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Question 451-15(4): Support For Non-government Organizations And Frontline Workers
Item 7: Oral Questions
February 22nd, 2006
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