Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to the remarks of the member for Don Valley West. I know of his personal commitment to this area.
I would like to recognize the member's share in the development of the points in the Speech from the Throne which we now think of as the children's agenda. We just heard that he has a fundamental understanding of the area, as well as an understanding as a member of parliament on what needs to be done to push things of this sort through.
I thought it would be interesting if the member could give us some sense of the work and the proposals of the subcommittee dealing with the children's agenda and youth at risk which he chaired in the previous parliament. Could he give some sense of that? Also, could he give us his thoughts on how that subcommittee might proceed, or is it going to proceed? What is it likely to do between now and the budget when we hope that many of the things in the Speech from the Throne will become engraved in stone?