Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The department is proposing that we put $200,000 of that money into the Language Nest Program. That program was started as a three-year pilot project and when we brought it forward three years ago, we proposed that the funding would decrease over time because we believed that the operators would find economies of scale and there wouldn't need to be as much training each year and the cost would go down. As it's turned out, almost all of the operators are using the funding to pay salaries. So the reduction, which is about $200,000 this year, is something that would impact on the delivery of the program. So we are proposing for this year to put $200,000 of that money into the program to bring it up to its former level.
We are proposing that there be a $500,000 program of grants to existing operators to help them with minor capital, whether that's safety improvements or for toys or other needs for the programs to help them improve the program delivery. We are going to take $240,000 and use that for training for operators of licensed day care operations. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.