Alfred Moses

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...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I mentioned earlier today, Heritage Canada hasn't even put a call out for these proposals, and, I mean, we went ahead of the game, working collaboratively with the groups to talk about making that connection in discussions with Heritage Canada. But, as I mentioned, you can't ask for money when you don't know what the plan is, and, in order to get that plan, I offered the Member to speak with staff from the CSFTNO to work with our department, our staff, to look at what kind of supports we can give to look at developing that possible design. Thank you.

Currently, I don't think there's any day homes that are licensed right now in the Sahtu communities. I can go and do a scan and see if there are any and also develop some packages that we could hand out to people who own their own homes and who might want to start up a day home. Like I said, we have a very good incentive package, but I can get that information and get it to the Member.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe that since being in this position, we've been really working with the francophone community to strengthen partnerships on many levels, and we consistently meet with them. The staff of the department has been meeting with them and I agree it's a great opportunity to access federal funding dollars moving forward.

In terms of the expansions and the cultural areas moving forward, we need to have that schematic design to go to the federal government to access those dollars. As I mentioned, our staff would be willing to work with the staff at CSFT I know and provide...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I know that CSFTNO has done some good groundwork, has done some good advocating. We also have been meeting with Heritage Canada, as I said. They did get back to us to clarify some questions. We're hoping to find a solution or an answer, a more definite answer, in January or February, but you can't put dollars on the table without having the schematic design in front of you. The design that we developed, based on our standards, the GNWT standards that we make sure that are consistent across the Northwest Territories with every school of the size and the nature, we're...