Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The productive choice -- productive choices are something that are in the legislation, the income assistance regulations. Individuals who are collecting income assistance are required to participate in a productive choice unless they are seniors or persons with disabilities I believe.
The productive choices, there's a variety of them. But currently everyone is enrolled in the wellness productive choice which we instituted at the beginning of the pandemic where people were required to take care of themselves and their families. And so that is what people are currently enrolled in.
The other productive choices include things such as parenting. They include things such as work, volunteer work, things like that.
Reviews are mixed on productive choices. In some communities, they see the value in them. It gives our communities service officers and an ability to work with someone and help that person maybe perhaps gain employment, get some volunteer experience, go out on the land, do things like that. And then other communities people see them as a burden. We have individuals on income assistance who instead of, you know, perhaps bettering their lives or doing what they need to do to better their lives, they are busy trying to fulfill this productive choices in order to get income assistance. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.