Bob Bromley

Go ahead, Mr. Krutko.

I realize that. It just was sort of portrayed as a bit of a surprise and I wondered... Perhaps it wasn’t a surprise and perhaps it’s just an explanation of the increase. I guess I’ll just drop it.

I’d like to call the Committee of the Whole together. Colleagues, we have before us consideration of tabled documents 4, 30, 38, 62, 75, 103, 133, and 135, as well we have 156, 157, and we have Bills 4, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20; and Ministers’ statements 65-16(5) and 88-16(5). What is the wish of committee, Mrs. Groenewegen?

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Once again the Minister builds my case for me. We have done very little for at least 12 of the last 16 years. I think in the last four years we’ve started to move on these things. That’s a disappointment, I suppose, in government, that the public justifiably has. I appreciate the remarks from the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Premier Roland.

Thank you, Minister. Next on my list I have Mr. Krutko.

I guess one last question on this. Do we get federal dollars on this to allow this to happen?

I could have sworn I heard a Member of the Cabinet say that was on hold. Repeatedly say that, in fact. I’d like to point out that these things have been continually raised. The Premier or Minister of Executive continually deflects things by saying this is a responsibility of MACA. I admit MACA does have some pretty modest voluntary sector programs in the area of sports and so on. In the area where we have voluntary work on critical services like mental health, harbour from family violence, accountability on behalf of the land, and so on, these are served by many other departments. There’s a...

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