Thank you, Mr. Chair. I know the Minister has heard me speaking in a similar vein by suggesting examination of an alternative model that has not been well used but has a record of success where it was tested and that’s the guaranteed basic income. I appreciate the Minister’s agreement to look at that and perhaps consider something like that for a regional model if the economics worked out. I think right now we are doing not too bad a job of holding people where they’re at, but I don’t think that’s the goal of our government. We want to help them out of poverty and into employment and better

health. I appreciate the review and I hope the review really does take a close look at the guaranteed basic income.

I did have a couple of questions. The Minister’s opening comments sounded like there’s 1.7 million new dollars to look at increasing benefits for food, clothing and other incidental expenses, $150,000 for the cost of delivering the Income Assistance program. I mentioned it’s about 20 percent. Yet when I look at the numbers on the page, I don’t see that reflected. I see an increase of $1.3 million, which is substantially less than the $2.25 million of increases that the Minister mentioned. I wonder if I could get some explanation to show me where I’m going wrong with these numbers.