Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The MLA is quite right, that to formally establish the committees takes a request of a community. However, for us to begin working with the committee and working with the community, all it takes is a phone call. We have written all of the communities over the past year and tried to sell our services, tried to encourage the community to become part of an ongoing dialogue of how these get created. When we get a request, we go into the community and we’ll meet with the leadership and other interested parties and do presentations. I myself have done a couple of presentations over the last while, but the formal, under the legislation, the formalizing of a committee under legislation takes a request for the communities, but actually starting that dialogue all it takes is for someone to talk to somebody. Whether that’s a community social worker, talking with the band council, whether that’s a CEO on their trips into the communities to talk about programming that’s available. We are open for business and we try to make that clear with communities. We will travel and we will work with communities to develop these committees. The stumbling block is always supporting them through training, through the development of the community and through supporting them through honorarium and other monies.
Mr. Heide on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 28th, 2011
Heide
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