David Krutko

Moving on to page 10-33, details of funding allocation... Page 10-31, sorry, details of funding allocated to education authorities, information item. Mrs. Groenewegen.

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole back to order. Prior to the break, we agreed to continue on with the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. At this time, I would like to ask the Minister of Education if he would be bringing in any witnesses.

Can we turn to page 10-7, department summary. Education, Culture and Employment, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $306.888 million.

Agreed. Moving on to page 10-29, information item, active positions, income security. Questions?

Is committee agreed?

Moving on to page 10-38, work performed on behalf of others. Any questions?

We’re on page 10-27, income security, operations expenditure summary, $71.533 million.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was just going raise a question in regards to the Auditor General report which was presented February 2008. I know I raised issues in the House yesterday about the Homeownership Program. One of the recommendations in regards to the report, it says that the evaluation of Homeownership Programs is not performed on a regular basis. So I would just like to know when is the review taking place on the program and exactly what type of review are we looking at in regards to performance review, in regards to client surveys. Are we going to be looking at the whole area of...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, will be supporting the motion. I, for one, feel, as I’ve stated many times in this House, that a government is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable in our society. What we’re seeing statistically and looking at the results of what poverty does, just look out in our large cities with regard to homelessness, people having to go to food banks, people having to go to relatives’ homes and sleeping on their couch because they have nowhere else to go, visiting each other so you can share the food that you have with a family member, or in some cases having the...

Moving on to page 10-36, information item, work performed on behalf of others. Any questions?