Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that Members on this side of the House have said that they don’t want to lose this money and I, at the risk of offending anybody, and this is not my intention, but there’s certainly schools in Yellowknife that have the same difficulties that the schools in the communities do and have students who need the breakfast money or whatever.
My concern with this particular pot of money, our understanding was that it was going to be used for a study and I appreciate the department’s reaction to the Social Programs committee’s advice and comments and that it has now been changed. But from what I understood the Minister to say, this is a steering committee, we’re going to establish, as Mr. Bromley said, more bureaucracy and he’s also said we’re going to put it into other programs. Well, you know things that are already there, I have no information on which to base my decision relative to these funds. If the Minister could provide me with a list of the programs that are out there and how this $400,000 is going to be divided up between these programs, no problem. But at the moment what I am hearing is we are going to establish a committee -- Lord knows how much money that is going to take out of the $400,000 -- and they are going to do something with whatever is left, but I don’t know what it is that they are going to do.
I feel really strongly that we are being asked to consider... Basically we are being asked to vote on something that we really don’t know anything about, and it is a real problem. The other thing that Members need to know is that I believe there is an intention for another motion to come forward to replace this money or this particular...basically to advise the department to reprofile money to put food into the mouths of babes, so there will be an opportunity to have their fears about losing this money. I will leave it at that, Mr. Chairman.