Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Executive. They are on the voluntary sector. I’d like to start by just quickly looking at our record during the life of our term. The first thing we did was cut out the Volunteer Support Initiative. Now we’ve dropped the multi-year funding for those providing critical services; that seems to be on hold. We’ve continually refused to install an office of capacity building in the Department of Executive, as the sector has called for repeatedly at committee and by Members. We’ve established a modest Stabilization Fund which is directed by the Premier, not by the voluntary sector, to where the government sees the need, not where the voluntary sector sees the need.

This is to me one of the biggest areas of our failure by this government and I’d like to ask what the Premier is going to do to pull us out of the fire and at least let us walk away without hanging our heads in shame here.