Bob Bromley

My last question is: do we expect this organization or business to continue in the absence of the support they had this year?

I’d like to note that the child worker programs we have at Aurora College do not produce child workers that meet the current federal standards. Will this include an assessment of that specifically? Hopefully towards correcting that gap.

I appreciate Mr. Daniels’ remarks. I am pleased to hear that those discussions are happening. I am not saying that we need to jump anywhere without the information. I am pleased to see the program go ahead until we have done that analysis, but I hope the department does decide to do it. Obviously, this is a key one. We want our students to graduate. I hear a lot of the anecdotal information, not exactly anecdotal, of specific cases where in the older system it seemed to work fine and I am sure there must be cases out there where it didn’t. I don’t hear about those, so it would be good to get...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to start with the early childhood development programs. To start with, I see we’ve got about $7.3 million there. I’m wondering what programs are included in that category, Early Childhood Development Program.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to follow up just briefly on that same topic. I think the Minister is clearly aware that the elders and chiefs of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation are very interested in having the Weledeh language being recognized as unique and having it considered for official language recognition, and they have been chatting about this for a good year now or longer. I am sure the elders have been at it longer. I am wondering how the Minister is entertaining and supporting this request. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the Minister’s commitment to include all of the public in that consultation. The work this government is doing in the block transfer area is good, but, unfortunately, similar action from the federal government and protection of the commons is missing. For those who set up a metre outside the block land transfer boundary, they are home free. The federal government must be kept accountable and be called upon to meet its responsibilities. How is the Minister keeping the pressure up on the federal government to hold them accountable? What steps are being taken to bring...

Thank you, Minister Lafferty. I’m going to beg the patience of Mr. Beaulieu one more time here and ask Mr. Krutko, who has not spoken yet. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Minister. The time is up for that questioner; I’ve put you back on the list. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will also be supporting this motion. The Minister mentioned in his budget address a number of places where additional funding was being planned for expenditures. One of those was the Aboriginal Student Achievement Initiative. I think those sorts of things fit exactly with this program, from what I know of it. I recommend that we do have the dollars for this and that it be made. I will be supporting the motion.

Agreed. Committee, that concludes that section. Let us turn back to 8-7, which is on page 8-7. Mr. Beaulieu.