Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am going to move on to a different topic, Mr. Chair. We were dealing with the small community employment support program and for quite a while in discussions with the department, and then a decision was made by the government to put an additional $3 million into that program, which is excellent. We were under the assumption, however, that the budget was $1.3 million, but we can see from this budget in front of us that the actual budget last year was $339,000 and was carried into this year. Our request initially was to have the overall budget at $5 million, but it seemed fairly acceptable that $4.3 million was something that we could probably live with, but, now that we are seeing that it was actually only $300,000 spent -- I suppose it must have been spent, or it is revised. I did know it went to $444,000 the previous year, as well. We were always operating with the assumption it was $1 million-plus in there. I am wondering if the Minister could just explain those numbers to us. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Tom Beaulieu on Committee Motion 53-18(2): Tabled Document 261-18(2): Main Estimates 2017-2018, Education, Culture And Employment, Deferral Of Education And Culture Activity, Carried
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Committee Motion 53-18(2): Tabled Document 261-18(2): Main Estimates 2017-2018, Education, Culture And Employment, Deferral Of Education And Culture Activity, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 20th, 2017
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