David Krutko

Mrs. Groenewegen.

Mr. Beaulieu.

Next I have Mr. Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I was looking at 10-18 in regard to the funding sources that are there for Aboriginal language broadcasts, official languages, Aboriginal, French. But again, it’s in the next budget, I guess. We’ll have to wait and see, but I think that because there have been quite a few recommendations put forward, that there are going to be needs for more resources to implement all those recommendations. So it will be good to see exactly what those amounts are, but more importantly, moving on some of those recommendations. So I’ll leave it at that.

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Mr. Lafferty.

Minister of Education.

I thank the Minister for that. I believe we do have to be realistic here.

The other issue that has come to my attention is the area of income assistance where you have individuals who, basically, for one reason or another, because they get medevaced to Edmonton and now we’ve got the 48-hour turnaround, those people have to get them out of Edmonton and back into their home communities, but these people are walking around with walkers. Then they go to income support to try to get support and they’re being told, well, sorry, you have to wait for a period of three or four months in order to get the...

Mr. Bromley.

Can the Minister tell me if he knows for a fact that there has been an increase in core funding for cultural organizations?