Thank you very much, Madam Chair. No, Madam Chair, absolutely hear the Member, multiple Members on the floor of this House. So there were changes made to the income assistance program in the last Assembly, and one of -- what I think is one of the -- well, two of the greatest changes were, one, the division for income assistance for persons with disabilities and seniors, and so that allowed persons with disabilities and seniors to enter into an annual program, so it reduced the administrative burden. And then within the other program, so the income assistance for adults program, that -- one of the most significant changes there was allowing adults within the program to keep more earned income, and so that provides a type of grace period for people when they're transitioning from being on income assistance and working their way towards employment and kind of bridging that time, so somebody's not expected to kind of go from one to the other and flip a switch.

The program for income assistance for adults is really designed to be a month to month support to make sure that people are meeting their basic needs, basic living expenses needs, and so that's why they have to go through that administrative process of being evaluated every single month. Because it's not supposed to be something that people are on constantly and all the time. And so in addition to keeping more earned income, there is also the ability to work with client navigators to find access to both pathways to employment, pathways to education. Certainly there there's also the expansion of the income assistance program that allows adult children to remain under their parents' application as well, and that's up to 21 years of age. So ensuring that those youth, really, when they turn 19 aren't turning around and going and establishing their own income assistance but are also granted a bit of a grace period there where they're able to get on their own feet and get going. So even though, you know, productive choices isn't mandatory anywhere -- or anymore, applicants are certainly still encouraged to participate within their community and also to grab hold of opportunities that do exist. And I hope that through work that we can do together in this Assembly on both sides of the House that we can further continue to evaluate the implementation of this program and find ways to make it better and find ways to really build healthy communities together. Thank you.