Thank you, Mr. Chair. So as the Minister has noted, the Healthy Children Initiative when we did the review of the program one of the things that was noted about that program was that a lot of the funds that went out to it was for general wages and salaries inside of daycares. So the numbers that reflect here reflect the first part of the year we had the old programs and now we're rolling out the new programs. There is going to be much more concentrated approach to the Early Childhood Intervention Program to make sure it's going to kids with special needs, and so what we've done is allocate a portion of the money that was previously for Healthy Children to the overall operating subsidy and then targeting the program much more directly on the Early Childhood Intervention Program. But part of what you see here is reflective of that program rolling out in mid-year. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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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
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