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Is the committee agreed that the Minister can bring in his witnesses?
Ms. Schofield
Sergeant-at-Arms, could you escort the witnesses in?
For the record, Mr. Speaker, could you introduce your witnesses?
Minister of Finance, do you have opening comments?
With that, we’ll take a short break.
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Deputy Minister Watters.
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Just to remind the Minister and also Members of the House that in order for these committees to be established, they have to basically request it. Right now there’s only one board that has requested the establishment of child and family services. So technically under the legislation you have to receive a request from a particular community to carry this out. So it’s not saying we’ll get five out there today. It’s sort of an application-based format that you have to go through under the legislation. By the legislation where you basically have to request of the Minister that you accommodate your...
Comment. Minister, if you want to respond.