Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Just on the Early Childhood Program, some of the problems that have been highlighted were the relatively low pay for child care workers and some of the reimbursement adjustments to daycare centres when children were absent for five days or longer last year. I think the department was working on that. Can the Minister tell me if he’s been able to address those two issues of child care worker pay and the issue of subsidies to daycare centres on a basis of per child, and that being a bit problematic because it led to unpredictable support to the centres and problems that ended up in some of them folding. Thank you.

Mr. Chair, certainly this has been brought to our attention and I do believe it was brought up in the House last year as well. So we have discussed it as a department and we did make some changes to our contributions last year to reflect that cost, the additional cost that the Member is referring to, but we continue to monitor our programming and improving where we need to improve. Certainly we have made some changes to that fact. Mahsi.

If it’s handy to do so, maybe in the information that we’re provided on the Early Childhood Programs those changes could be included too, so we can see what happened there. Thank you.

We can certainly provide that to reflect the changes that have come forward. Mahsi.

Thank you, Minister Lafferty. Once again if we can get that distributed to the entire committee. Mr. Bromley. Alright, we’re on page 10-19, activity summary, education and culture, grants and contributions, continued. Agreed?

Moving along to page 10-20, activity summary, education and culture, grants and contributions, continued, total contributions, $159.930 million. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a couple of questions here. I did want to ask about the last contribution, $50,000 for a cultural component of sports, Vancouver Olympics is mentioned here. Is all of this $50,000 going to Vancouver 2010? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Lafferty.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the $50,000 is earmarked for a contribution towards the Arctic Winter Games and also Vancouver Olympics. The funding, of course, is to promote northern arts and culture and support artists in that respect. Mahsi.

I guess I have to ask the Minister to clarify. The text that I’m looking at talks about the 2008 Arctic Winter Games, which I don’t think falls in the ‘09-10 budget year, and the Vancouver Olympics was ‘08-09 and also ‘09-10. So again, how much of this $50,000 is going to VANOC? Thank you.

Mr. Chair, when I said the Arctic Winter Games, of course the $20,000 on the previous year, but at the same time it’s approximately $37,000 of that towards the VANOC. Vancouver, the committee, we had to pay upfront for the performers at this function as well. So certainly those are the areas that we’ve highlighted as I guess our involvement with the VANOC. Mahsi.

So if it’s $37,000 for Vancouver Olympics, is the other $13,000 going to the 2010 Arctic Winter Games or someplace else? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister Lafferty. Minister Lafferty, did you want somebody else to speak? Mr. Devitt.

Thank you, Mr. Devitt. Ms. Bisaro. Ms. Bisaro, we’ll go to Mr. Daniels first.

Thank you, Mr. Daniels. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I think, if I understood Mr. Daniels correctly, $50,000 of all of this contribution is going to performers for the 2010 Olympics.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Lafferty.

Mr. Chair, that’s correct. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have another question relative to this page and that’s similar to a question I asked of MACA yesterday. We’ve got three different pots of money here, all of which go to support arts and or performers or arts programs. I’m wondering why these particular amounts are separated out and would it not be easier for us to focus where our dollars go if all these three funds were not in one pot and one organization was divvying up these funds so they could then be better focused on the goals and priorities of the Assembly and of the department? So I’m just wondering if the department might consider doing that to try and bring a little clarity to this budget. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Daniels.