Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I just wanted to urge members of the committee to vote against this motion. This program's currently run by the Government of Canada and it's money we have approved, that Parliament has approved, in this year and previous years from the taxpayers, who pay these taxes directly to the Government of Canada, and I don't think we should be transferring this program to any province. I think it should remain within the purview of the Government of Canada.
We have made some revisions to the program to make it better serve Canadians. We didn't think that money should be subsidizing Wal-Mart. In a substantial number of years past, the money had gone to for-profit private sector companies that didn't need the money, so we refocused it more on the not-for-profit sector, and it still will deliver services to Canadians. But we think it should remain a Government of Canada program and not be transferred to the province.