Just on the first two points, the Member is right that we had as part of the business plan that we would like to have five children and family services committees set up, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that we will put resources or that dollars are attached to that. The business plan is a plan. It’s what we want to do as a department. There are dollars allocated but there are lots of
other policy framework and directives that we lay out there.
The second thing is, yes, I agree with the Member that flexible approach is desired and that is what we have been doing. The director of our child and family services have travelled to many different communities meeting with the community people, community leadership, and working to set up the child and family service committees. While I appreciate the committee saying this is so important and why can’t you just get going, we need to have partnership with the communities. This can’t be just a top-down approach. I just want to reiterate that we will continue to work on that.
On the Food First Foundation, we don’t have any information here on whether we’ve given them money or not. I am aware that that organization has had funding assistance from some parts of this government, but I will have to take that question on notice and get back to the Member.