Just to remind the Minister and also Members of the House that in order for these committees to be established, they have to basically request it. Right now there’s only one board that has requested the establishment of child and family services. So technically under the legislation you have to receive a request from a particular community to carry this out. So it’s not saying we’ll get five out there today. It’s sort of an application-based format that you have to go through under the legislation. By the legislation where you basically have to request of the Minister that you accommodate your community’s wishes by establishing of those committees. So all we’re asking is that you consider a possibility of achieving five communities in this fiscal budget cycle. Again, those communities have to request the establishment of these committees. Once you have them established or the community requests them, then you can basically address the dollars as the requests come in.
So my understanding of the legislation is that in order to establish these things, you have to get a formal request from a community to establish these child and family service committees. So we’re looking at that process to take place, but the direction we should aim for is trying to accomplish five of those within the next fiscal year. So that’s
acceptable to the Minister that we try to form like that and I have to agree, let’s focus on working with those communities that have high numbers, get them applying for establishment of those types of committees and then look at the resources it will take to implement them. Thank you.