Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m in full support of this motion, and I won’t take too long to say that I feel the people involved in volunteerism cut right across all of GNWT operations, and various activities are across more than just one department. I agree totally that the initiative needs to be in with the Executive, because it tends to look at the full government operations, as opposed to MACA, which, as has just been stated, is a program department, more so.
I think one of the things we should consider also is identifying a Minister who is responsible for the
voluntary sector. It needs to have some profile. It certainly needs to have some resources — financial resources — dedicated to it, and I feel really strongly that we’ve kind of let this organization and also our residents down this particular year, when we’ve not found money to prop them up. So with that said, I will be supporting this motion.