Mr. Chairman, I wouldn’t want to impress on the Minister that we should become the sole funding source of every one of those organizations. When you wrap it up that way, you get day homes and everything, which probably isn’t quite reasonable and which is way beyond our
means. My focus, really, is ensuring that early childhood development programs are established from a contextual circumstance of not somebody who just turns the light on on their doorstep and all of a sudden they call it a learning centre. But, I mean, we have some real organized, dedicated people and committees and core groups that develop learning centre programming here and they have a difficulty. That’s the type of agency I’m more focusing in on.
Perhaps what it really relies upon is a clear definition of that type of programming, because I can tell you that we have many here in Yellowknife and I have no doubt that there are many in the communities and regions that people need that extra edge, and by and large, that’s ultimately my issue. When we have an organized system, and I want to stay away from the word daycare at this second, but when you have an organized childhood development program that parents are committed to, I mean, we need to make sure the doors are open. I just want to emphasize that that is my particular area of concern at this time. Thank you.