Julie Green

Thank you Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this complaint is frivolous and vexatious. I have not impugned any motive to any person, business, or employee of the government. What I have said is that there is potential, with raised amounts of sole-source contracts, for improper conduct. The government has been very vigilant about the need to respond to assessing risk and to meeting that risk with extra vigilance. I am pointing out that this needs to be the case. I have the greatest respect for the civil service. They are professionals who are doing their jobs to the best of their abilities. The...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think that the idea for this program, which is to bring government departments together to respond to the complex needs of their clients where they may overlap in a number of different departments, is in itself very valuable because it means that the client service providers talk to one another about what they are providing. I certainly am interested in hearing what the evaluation turns up. Can the Minister make a commitment about where and when he will share the results of the first stage of the evaluation? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just for my further information, could the Minister describe a little bit about what kind of work the inmates do and what they get paid for doing it? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That’s fine. If the Minister could supply that to me separately, that would be satisfactory. My question is whether this evaluation may prompt a continuation of this program, or is this program at the end stage? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I wonder if the Minister could explain to us what the Witness Expense Assistance Recovery Program is and why it seems to have gone out of existence. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d like to talk a little bit about integrated case management, another of the department’s pilot projects. Could the Minister please tell us the status of the Integrated Case Management program? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I’m tabling a document entitled “Change the Story: A Shared Framework for the Primary Prevention of Violence against Women and their children in Australia.” Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think that running a program of this kind is a very particular task. Where this current service provider has amassed this expertise as well as the skilled staff, I certainly would encourage the department to have the information in hand about continuing the contract sooner rather than later so that they can make that decision without there being layoff notices and a shutdown of the program if in fact it looks like it is worth continuing. That is a comment. My next question is if the evaluation shows that the program should not be continued in that form, what is the next...

Mr. Speaker, I’m also looking for a document that is a macro-economic policy framework blends application to the Fortune Minerals Tlicho road. I’m wondering if the Minister of Transportation can share that document with this side of the House.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I recognize that it is not easy to evaluate a program like this because the change would be seen over the long- term, not necessarily within a matter of weeks or months. I am wondering on what basis this program will be evaluated? Thank you.