Wendy Bisaro

Okay. So what was that $272,000 used for and are we dropping programs because we don’t have that revenue? What’s it being used for in this current year and how’s it going to impact the 2011-2012 budget?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a number of comments. In general I echo many of Mr. Bromley’s comments. I think that there’s an opportunity in all the budgets that we’re seeing and all the budgets of each department that we’re going to go through. There’s been an opportunity for them to do some things differently and I don’t see that either of the departments that we’ve looked at so far have taken up that challenge and have looked at what they’re doing and looked at doing it differently to try and encompass some of the main philosophies that Members on this side of the House have been talking...

Thanks for the explanation. I did have a question under children services as well. Maybe it’s not so much a question as a comment. I look at these numbers and we spend almost $7.7 million on foster care and about $3.6 million on residential care, yet we spend $858,000 on intervention and protective services. I guess that’s apprehensions. If we look at the paragraph below we spend some $900,000 on prevention and promotion. It seems to me that we’ve got these numbers in the wrong place. I know it costs money to put children into foster care but it goes to the recommendations from the Child and...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a question under the prevention and promotion paragraph on page 8-30. There’s a huge increase in the money going to authorities and agencies from the revised estimates from 2010-2011 to the main estimates for 2011-2012; about $600,000. Could I get an explanation of what that’s for?

Mr. Speaker, to that review, a couple of the concerns that I know of is the hunter education for only some of our residents, the limitation of age on hunters, those two things for sure and there are a couple of other ones. But I guess what I would like to know from the Minister that the review that was done by the Department of Justice, was that done before these concerns were raised or after? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to ask some further questions to the Minister of ENR to follow up on some of the questions that I asked earlier to see if we can get some clarification as to what the department can do to advise our public and our residents about the results of the consultations that have happened relative to the Wildlife Act.

The Minister at one point, I think in his last response, said he didn’t know what I have in mind, so maybe I will try and explain to him what I do have in mind. There were numerous consultations. There were notes taken at those meetings. There were...

To the Minister, I appreciate that the changes will be made in the act and that the act will come forward, but at the consultations that I attended there were specific questions from individuals and organizations and there were assurances to those people and those organizations that their questions would be answered, that they would be advised of answers to their questions. So again I ask the Minister, will people be answered? Will the questions that people asked be answered not in the act but in a letter, in an e-mail? We owe it to the people that made presentations and asked questions to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions as well today are addressed to the Minister for Environment and Natural Resources and I want to follow up on my statement.

I mentioned a number of concerns that I’ve heard from constituents with regard to the draft Wildlife Act. I’d like to ask the Minister first off, he mentioned, I believe it was last week, that he was on draft number 54 of the act. I’d like to know what draft number we’re on now, and as a result of that, what changes have been made to the draft act as a direct result of concerns expressed during the consultation process. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m very pleased to hear about the legislation being looked at, because to me that is the crux of the issue of why we release patients way too early. They’re not ready to be released but they can’t be held. Can the Minister advise if there are recommendations to change the legislation and when that might come forward?

I’d like to thank the Minister for the response. I have to say that I noted in there that there was no reference to an increase in funding, which is very unfortunate. I talked in my Member’s statement about the needs of the mentally ill when they are released from hospital particularly, or some other area. To me it’s an area where our residents and patients are particularly vulnerable. I’d like to know if the review will look at the after-care needs of the patients once they are released and will it also look at the after-care needs in light of the service providers who try to assist patients...