David Krutko

We’re on page 10-27, income security, operations expenditure summary, $71.533 million.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was just going raise a question in regards to the Auditor General report which was presented February 2008. I know I raised issues in the House yesterday about the Homeownership Program. One of the recommendations in regards to the report, it says that the evaluation of Homeownership Programs is not performed on a regular basis. So I would just like to know when is the review taking place on the program and exactly what type of review are we looking at in regards to performance review, in regards to client surveys. Are we going to be looking at the whole area of...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, will be supporting the motion. I, for one, feel, as I’ve stated many times in this House, that a government is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable in our society. What we’re seeing statistically and looking at the results of what poverty does, just look out in our large cities with regard to homelessness, people having to go to food banks, people having to go to relatives’ homes and sleeping on their couch because they have nowhere else to go, visiting each other so you can share the food that you have with a family member, or in some cases having the...

Moving on to page 10-36, information item, work performed on behalf of others. Any questions?

Next on the list I have Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In regard to the Minister’s statement and also the housing programs, I note in this statement that he talked about promoting the sale of existing public housing units. I think that’s a great idea. I think we have something like 1,000 units that we’re trying to get rid of. I think the plan a number of years ago was 100 units a year for 10 years, take those dollars, reinvest it as one of the ways of dealing with the declining social funding from the federal government. Yet, I believe we have sold very few units. One of the major problems of that is we’ve overestimated...

I believe that we do have to change the system and change an obsolete process. In regard to the legislation we have in this House, we have some outdated legislation regarding the PUB and the Power Corporation. I believe we will have to make some legislative changes.

I’d like to ask the Premier if he sees any legislative changes coming forward and when he intends to deal with them in this House.

Minister of Education.

Thank you. Next on the list I have Mr. Hawkins.

Mr. Lafferty, would you like to respond to the general comment?