Mahsi, Mr. Chairman. The $400,000 has been debated in the House yesterday. Maybe we can make some points clear that we are on the record saying that the $400,000 will be going to the Food First Program or the breakfast program, the nutritious program, the snacks program that are currently being offered. Those may not have been addressed or fell through the cracks. We want to subsidize those programs. This $400,000 will go towards that.
We talk about the steering committee. I guess we need to stay away from that terminology where we just want to have a coordinator approach where it is identified what is needed in the community. Let’s put the money towards that. We are going to work with the schools and the department such as Health and Social Services and NGOs, the Food First Foundation and Breakfast for Learning, because, Mr. Chairman, over the last three years, Food First Foundation has provided just well over $250,000 for Kids in the Kitchen Cooking Program in nine of the communities. Maybe we can top up on other communities that may have been left out.
Those are the prime focus of the $400,000 to meet the needs of the communities that are somewhat left out where we can talk about Breakfast for Learning currently supporting breakfast, lunch and snack program as it was identified yesterday, 42 out of 49 schools. Maybe this will cover an additional seven schools as well. On top of that, other subsidies that will certainly benefit other communities or the schools, but we need to work with those organizations.
We have to keep in mind that after we’ve listened to the Regular Members about addressing their concern about the study, their concern about the steering committee and now I’ve made a commitment in this House that the $400,000 will go towards the Nutritious Food Program. Mahsi, Mr. Chair.