Thank you, Mr. Chair. I, too, will
support the motion. I agree that parks renewal is very important but not essential. I think that at this point we’re having many issues with the budget. We’re having difficulty retaining our staff. We’re putting lots of families through a lot of issues, obviously, with the layoffs and so on. This type of initiative is something that could be deleted from
the budget and reintroduced in more essential areas.
I think this could be brought through the regular business-planning process. It’s an opportunity for us to see how one budget year evolves without trying to put a whole bunch of new initiatives into it and to determine the impact of the cuts that are currently in place and also to look at this as a potential to have 15 PYs, approximately, in the government that were cut, maybe some that were essential as well. So I, too, will support this motion.