Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just to the motion here now, I will be supporting it, but I don’t see why we need to support the existing daycare facilities. I’m not sure if the mover of the motion would be able to amend this, but the real problem that I see is in the small communities… I know in a lot of the tax-based communities like Yellowknife, Inuvik and Hay River it’s not an issue when it comes to daycare because you have the numbers of children to fill those buildings, but in the small communities you’re constantly losing money when you’re running a daycare because you might have one or two children in that facility yet you have to have at least two people to watch them. I’ve seen in the past, well, I’ll just use Tsiigehtchic for an example. Almost half of the children that are in the daycare program are children of the people that are running it. It’s a challenge, I know from past experience. In other communities, I know it’s really successful in Fort McPherson. We have in the neighbourhood of 10 to 20 people going to the Head Start program, actually, and that’s very successful and the people that run it are doing a great job there.

I think that we need to work with a lot of the communities that are having difficulties. As I’ve said, again, the cost of operating these facilities, I know it’s a big challenge for some of the communities. There are discussions of junior kindergarten, but you can’t put a price on these children. These children need a good education. We’ve seen it in the numbers that we get under education. All the presentations we get in committee, it’s very clear that we need to do something better and putting our children to school earlier, that’s what we need to do, so I don’t think we should be putting a price on that. With that, I’ll be supporting the motion.