Bob Bromley

I realize that. It just was sort of portrayed as a bit of a surprise and I wondered... Perhaps it wasn’t a surprise and perhaps it’s just an explanation of the increase. I guess I’ll just drop it.

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Premier Roland.

Page 2-22, Executive, activity summary, executive operations, grants and contributions, total grants and contributions, $390,000.

Once again the Minister builds my case for me. We have done very little for at least 12 of the last 16 years. I think in the last four years we’ve started to move on these things. That’s a disappointment, I suppose, in government, that the public justifiably has. I appreciate the remarks from the Minister.

I could have sworn I heard a Member of the Cabinet say that was on hold. Repeatedly say that, in fact. I’d like to point out that these things have been continually raised. The Premier or Minister of Executive continually deflects things by saying this is a responsibility of MACA. I admit MACA does have some pretty modest voluntary sector programs in the area of sports and so on. In the area where we have voluntary work on critical services like mental health, harbour from family violence, accountability on behalf of the land, and so on, these are served by many other departments. There’s a...

Thank you, Minister. Next on my list I have Mr. Krutko.

I guess one last question on this. Do we get federal dollars on this to allow this to happen?

Page 2-14, Executive, activity summary, directorate, grants and contributions, grants, $185,000.

Thank you, Mr. Stewart. Page 2-22, Executive, activity summary, executive operations, grants and contributions, grants, total grants, $350,000.

I appreciate that. Can we expect this amount to go up the following fiscal year? Are we projecting it to go up based on what we know now? Are there programmed increases expected the following fiscal year related to the changes we made in 2011-2012?