What we’re doing is having a discussion with the intention of moving forward in terms of doing an assessment. The decision to transfer some of the responsibility for social housing to ECE has been in place now for several years. The decision was made in 2005. We believe it’s high time that we took a step back and did an assessment to see how well it’s working, what are the benefits, what are the pros and cons of doing it this way.
Somebody mentioned today in their statement, where is the proof that this is going well? There are a lot of things that we could point to probably that were probably difficulties in getting this in place. There are other things that we can point to that are doing well. This has allowed, as the Member has indicated, for more people to be hired through ECE. They’re allowed to expand the area that they service by face-to-face meeting rather than having the region deliver some of the programs. Through the economies of scale they are able to do more. We have to be able to measure that.
The Minister of ECE and I are working on developing a terms of reference. We’re looking at signing an agreement so that we can go out and do an independent review. We’re not quite at that stage yet, but there is still some more discussion to take place, but that was our intention.