Jane Groenewegen

Thank you. I would like to recognize the clock and rise and report progress, but I will allow Minister Miltenberger to first respond to this and then I will rise and report progress. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. I’d like to ask the Minister if he would like to bring witnesses into the Chamber. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Beaulieu. Mr. Miltenberger. I’m sorry.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, in view of the anniversary of the public apology of our federal government with respect to the immeasurable harm of residential school survivors and to them and to their families, I’d like to just say today that for sure I’m not an expert or a counselor or anyone who has any credentials in family relations, but I was a child and I am a parent. One thing I do know, it goes against all the laws of nature to take a child away from their parents. The authority of a parent is tempered with love and security in the bond between them. That authority is misplaced when it...

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Department of Health and Social Services, operations expenditures, community health programs, not previously authorized, $1.267 million. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Beaulieu.

Thank you. Next I have Mr. Menicoche.

Mr. Menicoche: