Alfred Moses

A lot of those plans with the Aboriginal governments are being developed right now. As we progress, we are going to develop those monitoring and evaluation plans as well, M and E Plans, and making sure that they're accountable for the money that we do contribute to them, and ensuring that they have some measureable outcomes in their action plans too so that we can stay on top of it.

Yes. Well, we do have walk-ins that come into the offices in the regions. We have our ETOs working in the communities. Our staff now contacts employers that actually employ some of these individuals and help them understand what services and what kind of services can be provided to them.

I did mention the Regional Recruitment Program, a very successful program, that we look at employees that can move up into a higher position, get paid a little bit more. I believe they get 80 per cent of the salary, and then the other percent goes to training, but if that was what the Member was asking, or else there was something more specific, I just ask him to provide a little bit more detail, and we can see in terms of the direct appointments. We have gone through some more regional recruitments. Where the directors and managers actually recognize the employees that have been there for a...

With the universal child daycare programs and moving forward, right now I think the early stages that we have made in terms of the programs and subsidizing our daycares and putting more money into our daycares and day homes is the first step. Next we are going to be looking at developing that action plan per to the motion that was brought in the House. Right now, the funding changes that we have made is to have better services in the communities and to make sure that our daycares and our day homes are able to sustain their operations.

There is going to be significant increases throughout the Northwest Territories. I did make comments in the House on this last week and, as well, going to be making another statement moving forward on how we are going to be implementing this program. There will be benefits for low- to moderate-income families. For more details, I can ask my deputy minister to get into a little bit more detail. Thank you.

Thank you. With the small community employment support program, it's a program that's been around for many years. We're going to continue to do the work and focus on the training on the job as well as community initiative, provide project based on training. Training on the job has been very successful in our communities. Currently, I believe we do the program in 26 communities in the Northwest Territories. Small community is defined by any community that is less than 1,000 people. In the 2015-16 fiscal year we had 303 NWT residents participate; 196 went through the individual training on the...

It was a reduction and as mentioned before, when we went through the reduction exercises, you want to make sure that any work that the position was doing could be still done with the remaining staff within the department. Thank you.

I believe the amount for inclusive schooling is a reasonable amount when we allocate it to the schools. With the attendance issue as well, and I want to increase graduation rates just as much as the Member does. One thing that we are doing that I did mention in the opening comments was the Pathways to Graduation. That's something unique and something different through our Education Renewal and Innovation Action Plan. Hopefully, we'll see some great results coming out of that pathways program. Thank you.

Yes, $3.523 million to the language communities. We also fund the Aboriginal language and culture instructors, and some funding going to teaching and learning centres as well.

Yes, that's correct; dollar for dollar.