Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the member for Yukon for his speech tonight on the emergency debate moved by the member for Churchill.
In the supplementary estimates under the major specific initiatives it states:
The number of students claiming sexual and/or serious physical abuse and the severity of abuse has proved to be much higher than initially estimated, resulting in total projected payments in 2009-10 to exceed the $160 million annual allocation.
If the problem is actually larger than expected and this foundation is actually just beginning to show good results, it seems that the foundation should be getting more money, not less. Why the cuts? Is it, as the Minister said, he needs to “tackle the deficit”, the real reason for the cuts?