Mr. Chair, I look forward to the department correcting these deficiencies as noted by the Auditor General. I know the department also made some responses to the deficiencies, and I’m hoping that “immediately” means right now, today, not next week or the week after.
There are deficiencies, as noted by the Auditor General, in the child and family services within this department here. There are some deficiencies that need to be corrected right now; others, as Ms. Bisaro has noted, we don’t want to wait for the whole bag of deficiencies to be looked at and corrected until we have an excuse for the governance reform. I don’t know what that reform, the interpretation of the reform that’s taking place. That just seems to be a stalling tactic, or wait until the end of the 17th . Then it will be two Assemblies
who don’t do anything.
These are the promises of the 16th Assembly, which
we didn’t do very much, if anything. Now, I’m hoping that these improvements, as Ms. Bisaro noted, will not be delayed, otherwise we’re just talking in the wind here and not making any sense.
In the 16th we met with people in the communities.
That cost a lot of money and we don’t really have much to show for it, yet we’re still talking about this stuff. It’s crazy.
I guess that’s why I’m looking for some movement and I’m hoping that…(inaudible)…says we have to make some significant improvements here. I’m just hoping that this isn’t taken as a delay tactic, waiting for something else to happen before we can make any type of significant changes in the reform system. In the meantime, families in our communities in the North have to deal with the deficiencies. Thank you.