Alfred Moses

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I appreciate the question and the concern for Charles Tetcho School. I know that we did have some back and forths in the House on this one. I believe the next discussion and talks will be happening in November. The department will go in and work on that schematic design with the community, and then moving forward from there, so they'll have a community consultation sometime in November. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, and I apologize to the Member. I just gave the information in terms of why we're not going to revisit the ministerial directive, because the enrolment rates were low, a lot of engagements and consultations went on already. In terms of the continued work forward and the letter, we did have to translate all the jurisdictional scan information, we got that done, and we will be responding to CSFTNO and APADY with our response as well.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, that's why we're doing the survey, and this isn't the first time that we've given funding to communities and schools to make the necessary changes for the junior kindergarten program. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and just in addition to what I had mentioned earlier during question period that the department is consistent in assuring that our obligation under our capital standards are being met across the Northwest Territories, that we have 49 schools, that we understand and foresee the utilization rates in K’alemi Dene School increasing over the years. Due to our capital standards, schools with an enrolment from 50 to 150 students require a certain size gymnasium and that's what they have down in Ndilo right now. However, there's a planning study that’s going to be performed by...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's just an assumption. I mean, we won't know until we go out and get that information. Some schools it was expensive, some wasn't, but it's just an assumption. We won't know until we continue to do those engagements with the school. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. During the consultation period we heard from many stakeholders. We had public engagements here in Yellowknife as well as Hay River. The information that we received, our jurisdictional scan, as well as looking at our policies we thought we were moving ahead; that the ministerial directive was good in the way it was presented. It is better than the 2008 ministerial directive. There is improvements and we did get consultation and engagements with community groups here in Yellowknife as well as Hay River. Moving forward, we thought that was a good process. Thank you, Mr...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Currently we've already been engaging the communities, the schools that have been implementing the junior kindergarten program, and we've been doing a survey of all schools and seeing what schools will need to implement the junior kindergarten moving forward. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, I do.

Yes, Mr. Chair, that's correct, and I believe in the New Year we're going to have the community of Sachs Harbour, that's going to be implementing a junior kindergarten, so it'll be up to 20. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, earlier this year, I committed to reviewing the 2008 Ministerial Directive, Enrolment of Students in French First Language Programs. In conducting our review, we undertook a comprehensive engagement process targeting the rights holder population in the North. A total of 140 people responded either to our survey, attended a session in Hay River, or attended a session in Yellowknife. We reviewed legislation, current GNWT policies, and the responses from the stakeholder engagements and survey and conducted a jurisdictional scan. The objective of the review was...