Thank you, Mr. Chair. I seem to have been labeled as anti-iPad and anti-corporate sponsorship. I’m not quite sure why. Maybe because I expressed a concern with the fact that we don’t have a policy to deal with corporate sponsorships.

I am not against corporate sponsorship. I think I need to impress upon people that I am making a distinction between corporate money going to government and corporate money going to a sporting event, for instance.

We are – and I use us all in this room – we are the government. By putting a name on a piece of equipment, we are endorsing that organization, that company, and I don’t think that that is what a public government should be doing.

I do support this project. I think the project is valid. I have concerns, as does Mr. Bromley, about the amount of screen time that our kids are getting into and can get into. I think what concerns me about what we are doing is that we are giving children another opportunity to increase screen time, but as Mr. Menicoche says, it’s within the purview of the parents. If we supply the iPads with information on how much time kids should have in front of a screen, then one weighs off the other and I am fairly comfortable with that.

I don’t know how to say it any more strongly, that providing material to our parents to help them raise their children better is a good thing. I think better is if we can provide the one-on-one and the individual person-to-person information about raising our children better. That’s probably more expensive and probably harder to do. So if this is a choice of two things and this is a second best choice, then I am okay with the iPads, but I do have concerns about the fact that we as a government are accepting corporate money and we don’t have anything to guide us in how we do that. That’s basically what my concerns are. I seem to have been tarred with the brush of we shouldn’t accept any corporate money, and that’s not where I’m coming from.

I appreciate Mr. Bromley’s concerns about the branding. That for me, I guess, is also a problem. We don’t have a policy which says whether we should have a logo that is 500 feet wide or five feet wide, if it’s somewhere. We don’t have a policy which says there should be nothing on the iPads but we give them credit in some document somewhere.

I don’t really know how else to explain it. Because I have concerns about the issue but I do support the

project, I am going to abstain from the motion. Thank you.