Thank you, Madam Chair. I think I am going to follow along the same lines as my colleagues on these questions. The $28,000 in increased core funding for the Status of Women Council and Native Women's Association, I can understand that was done, as the Premier put it in his opening comments, to be consistent with those offered to the public service, but I have been here for...This is the third budget I have gone through. I don't remember there being an increase even though there were increases to the UNW's Collective Agreement. Each year for the past three years, I don't ever remember an increase in the funding to these two organizations until this year. Is that a direct result of that third-party accountability framework that the Premier speaks of? If that is the case, are we going to be for an increase every year hereafter? What type of precedent are we setting by doing this? I think that there might be a number of NGOs lining up on our doorstep to try to get some funding that they have been demanding from the government as long as I can remember. Thank you, Madam Chair.
David Ramsay on Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 27th, 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 26th, 2006
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