Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just continuing on from where we left off there, my point stands. As the Minister of ECE said, these new dollars are proposed for expenditure on items we were clearly assured during business plans would be addressed through existing dollars. How could we not do our inspections on day care centres? The Minister agreed and said that would be funded. The other one was the early childhood framework. We were well along on that. That was a work in progress. Obviously, there were dollars for that. Now, these new dollars we identified for new additive work in early childhood are being re-profiled to existing programs. Obviously, nothing would hurt me more than to delete these hard fought for dollars, but that’s the issue we’re on about here, and why I think we need the Minister’s assurance that we will be having some discussion on these things for meaningful committee input. I think the phenomenon, I guess I would call it fancy footwork and we don’t want it to continue. It undermines our trust and our ability to work together effectively. That’s the assurance I’m looking for from the Minister.
Bob Bromley on Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters (Reversion)
In the Legislative Assembly on June 11th, 2012. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters (Reversion)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters (Reversion)
June 10th, 2012
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