Thank you, Mr. Chair. The apparent reduction is actually the result of a re-statement. Our complete budget for the On-the-Land Healing Fund is $1.2 million, so it’s actually slightly higher this year than it was last year. What we’ve done, though, is we’ve carved out $200,000, and that actually shows up under fees and payments. The reason for that being, in our consultations with Aboriginal governments when we ran our pilot programs, we realized that we needed to do some work with each of the Aboriginal governments to develop some common outcomes and a common evaluation framework, and there’s a desire on the part of Aboriginal governments to see that done, perhaps not by department staff but by an external consultant that they would have some ability to help select. So we’ve actually increased the budget slightly, so the $1 million is what’s rolled directly out to Aboriginal governments. The $200,000 that’s held behind is to work in partnership with them on some common evaluation, sharing best practices, program support, developing program standards and so on. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Delancey on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 17th, 2015
Delancey
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