Jane Groenewegen

Clauses 326 to 345.

Clause 23.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Question is being called. All those in favour of the motion? All those opposed? All those abstaining? The motion is carried.

---Carried

Clause 5, as amended.

Clause 6.

Clause 38.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Thank you. The Minister beat me to it by saying I brought this up before. I’ve got a very thick file on this subject here, Mr. Speaker, and the correspondence goes back to letters to Mr. Antoine in the previous government even. I mean it’s been at least 10 years that I’ve been talking about this. This is a good program, the concept is good, but the actual working out of it is kind of untenable. It has for some people who are the would-be recipients of this support to take drastic measures. Like, in instances where one person who is on title is disabled and the other isn’t, where they’ve...

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I don’t really know what else to ask. I just was going to ask, for the benefit of the people in my constituency who are anxious to hear an answer to this question, I was hoping that we were going to hear something earlier than this spring. Let me be clear. Is that when the Minister is going to share with us the recommendations or is that when this matter might be resolved? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.