Mr. Speaker, it would be difficult for me to stand up on the floor here and draw on a bunch of specifics, but I can provide those for the Minister easily.
What I’m trying to do is get some form of a commitment from the Minister to try to make the policies and procedures work in the small communities. It doesn’t seem to work. It appears that there are qualified people in the small communities who can take the kids of their relatives and their grandchildren and so on, yet the child ends up out of town. My position is that there’s something wrong with the policy; the policy doesn’t fit the small communities.
I’ll ask the question: would the Minister be prepared to work with the smaller communities and the smaller communities’ MLAs to look at specifics with an attempt to revise the policies and procedures that are more congruent with small communities?