Glen Abernethy

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What is the wish of committee? Mrs. Groenewegen.

Mr. Chair, I remain confused. Once again, during the business planning process we understood that the department was committing to making substantial progress towards having five child and family service committees in the Northwest Territories. We didn’t see the budget line in the 2011-12 main estimates, which is why, frankly, we were confused. We fully expected to see that. As I’ve said, it’s an incredibly integral part of the Child and Family Services Act and its implementation. We’re talking about empowering communities and giving them the ability to help themselves when it comes to child...

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Is committee agreed that we move on to Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2010-2011?

Is committee agreed that we’ve concluded our consideration of Education, Culture and Employment?

Thank you, Mr. Heide. Mr. Beaulieu.

Page 6, supplementary estimates, Municipal and Community Affairs, operations expenditures, regional operations, not previously authorized, $614,000.

Mrs. Groenewegen.

I’d like to thank the Minister for the commitment to get that done. Once again, I think that’s incredibly important for our users and for the administration of the Child and Family Services Act overall.

Another area that we talked about was obviously a critical area to us, and it’s one of the aspects that made the Child and Family Services Act unique in all of Canada, and that was the establishment of child and family services committees. Currently, there is one child and family service committee in the Northwest Territories and that’s in Fort McPherson. Yet the act does say that we will have a...

Thank you, committee. We’re going to stand down pages 1, 2, 3, 4 and we’re going to move along to page 5. Is committee agreed?

Mrs. Groenewegen.