Alfred Moses

Yes. Definitely out of the department we can look at providing that information from a department, but working with my Cabinet colleagues to look at those as well, and as the Minister had mentioned, he can look into that and get back to the Member when it was a question in the House, but we definitely can.

We are re-profiling that amount of money and I will go to the deputy minister to get into the details of how that money is going to be re-profiled. Thank you. Deputy minister Stewart.

I would say by the fall. We are currently working with the Aboriginal organizations right now to develop those plans, so as those plans are being developed, we will also be creating those monitoring and evaluation plans as well. We are looking at the fall and we will make sure that committee is up to speed on those as well. Thank you.

Thank you. It's always a concern that we bring up as well, whether being on the Regular Members’ side or now in my new position. It is a requirement by the federal government and we can ask them but we can't tell them to do the changes. It's something that they have initiated themselves. It’s all about accountability and we want to make sure that departments are accountable and that organizations are accountable for the dollars that we do access.

Yes, just looking for the details on this one, but we will go to our deputy minister to provide a little bit of detail. Thank you.

Yes, out of that report it did talk about more consultation with the communities and specifically the communities that have had the program before. You want to make sure what's worked, what hasn't, we want to get an inventory of the resources, the space that’s available in the some of the communities that want to implement it. Initially, I believe there was 23 communities that did look at trying to do daycares, I mean junior kindergarten. But some of them couldn't offer the program because they didn't have any four-year-olds. Our next steps is to go out into the communities, especially the...

I appreciate the Member's comments and definitely take it into consideration. It's a great suggestion. With the amount of individuals and families we have on income assistance right now, clients, is going to be beneficial for them to understand the changes that we are going to be making in the months to come. Thank you.

As I mentioned, Mr. Speaker, there's 26 communities that we currently work with. The reason 26 communities is because we don’t have ECE regional office in all the communities, and the ones that are under 1,000 people, we work with them and we help them work on giving the applications to apply for this funding to support on-the-job training and support group-based activities in the community as well to develop that training. We'll continue to work with all our communities, the 26 of them, to make sure that they have an understanding and in having questions asked in a House like this also brings...

Yes. As part of the evolution, we do look at decentralizing positions out into the communities. With the South Slave, there were two identified positions that we're going to be going to the South Slave through decentralization and the devolution process. Thank you.

It's not that it can't be done. There's still a lot of work to do and we've got to make sure that everybody has the opportunity to either go to the classrooms or even just make sure that we're also taking care of the wellness of our teaching staff as well. It’s something that we can talk to the principal about and the Beaufort Delta education authority to see what are the options out there, because obviously a lot of people do go out hunting in the springtime right around school.