Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Next I have Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you. I’d like to ask the Sergeant-at-Arms if he would please escort the witnesses into the Chamber.

Minister Abernethy, for the record, could you please introduce your witness?

Thank you. Further questions on page 5-4, Mr. Bromley.

…Works and Services. I would like to ask Minister Abernethy if he would like to bring witnesses into the Chamber.

Mr. Abernethy, do you want repeat that last statement on the record, please? Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Any further general comments? If not, I’ll go to Mr. Miltenberger now, if he would like to respond.

Mr. Speaker, over the years we’ve had much debate in this House about whether impact and benefit agreement payments, beneficiary shareholders payments, bingo earnings, you know, we’ve had discussion about all kinds of, you know, the Child Tax Benefit, whether or not these things should be treated as income. Is there any review or does a policy review occasionally take place to determine or is it just on an as-required basis? Is there any forum, I guess, in which we can have input that could go towards changing that policy?

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you very much, Mr. Bouchard. Next I have Mr. Moses.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I listened with interest as my colleagues raised the issue of the Child Tax Benefit and how that is clawed back. Mr. Miltenberger will remember in a previous government we had a Minister of ECE that we dubbed “The Claw.” I’m sure that Mr. Lafferty would not like to receive such notoriety.

I had an incident recently in my constituency which causes me to wonder about how far we go to claw back things. This constituent had an unfortunate tragedy in her family. Community members came together and raised money and made donations to help this family cope with this. Now, I...