Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will be voting in favour of this motion heavy-heartedly, because I understand that we want to investigate this, I understand that Quebec has a program in place that is innovative, but I have sat in this House and given the Minister of Finance difficulty that since division our budget has doubled and that we are looking at additional costs on top of that. Fiscally responsible we need to be here as well.
I am supporting this motion to investigate the possibilities of this. My colleagues have made good points to support it. I do have lots of concerns on the costs that are going to be associated to it. It’s a social state that we’re getting into, so how much more are we going to do?
Other colleagues have argued the other side of it, that how much more are we going to do for children and families and stuff like that to help raise their children? Somewhere there has to be some responsibility on both parties.
I thought I would just express those concerns about the financial costs associated with it. We often just say, from this side, well, let’s look at the costs and the other side should be implementing what we want to do, but we also ask for them all the time to be fiscally responsible, look at the budget. We are challenged to find other funds to do other projects that we want to do, so we have to look at that responsibility as well. But I think we should be investigating the possibility of it. Mr. Hawkins talked about education and I think that’s a good point. It wasn’t free before. There are some good points and we can look at the investigation once the study is completed. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.