Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and I see my time is dwindling, so I will be very quick. One of the things that happened is that I, like probably many people, have a lot of essential workers who live in the constituency that I serve. A lot of them were nurses and had to work 12-hour shifts. They ended up, some of them, losing their childcare, and they had to either hire high school students to step in for them, for their children who were no longer in school, or they had to bring family up from down South at a significant cost to their families. There was a fund that was set aside for essential workers that they were not able to tap into if their children were not in a licensed day home, and so, if this money was set aside, or some of it was set aside, for essential workers in order to be able to help them. Some of them had bills all of a sudden upwards of $3,000 for their family, and so that was quite significant. That is an extreme concern for some of the people who live in Kam Lake, was all of a sudden bills went up and there wasn't a way for them to tap into that fund. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Caitlin Cleveland on Committee Motion 75-19(2): Tabled Document 286-19(2): Main Estimates 2021-2022 - Finance - Deferral of Department (page 137), Carried
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Committee Motion 75-19(2): Tabled Document 286-19(2): Main Estimates 2021-2022 - Finance - Deferral of Department (page 137), Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 9th, 2021
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