Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As much as I personally feel that the money should be deleted, I am going to have to side with some of my colleagues from the smaller communities who feel that the money may find a good use. I have said this before and I think this is just an example of the government wanting to find a committee or do a study or maybe hire a consultant, and I think that is going to eat up a lot of this money. I think the money could be better spent, and I think that the committee has got to be on top of the department when it comes to trying to find ways and means to get nutritious foods into the children.
We have talked many times about a milk subsidy program and other things like that and I think we have really got to start looking at that. This money, hopefully it gets spent the right way. If we were to take it out, it would just disappear into the abyss and the government would find something else to spend $400,000 on what we probably wouldn’t agree with anyway. So I think I am going to err on the side of caution and side with those that want to keep the money in there. But again, I think the
Standing Committee on Social Programs has got to take the department to task and I know I have been to a number of meetings with my colleagues on the Social Programs committee trying to get this milk subsidy up and running. Something like that is meaningful and going to have some real impact on children and is more favourable than what is being proposed, but I am going to have to vote against the motion, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.