Bob Bromley

Okay, I know that won’t be exciting news to the language communities that are out there waiting for new dollars to come forward here, although I am sure they will appreciate the conference that is happening and so on, and will participate. I am just wondering will the funding program, the proposals, fall out of this update that we will receive in the fall session? Is that where we’ll learn what the plans are and progress on that? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to follow up on my Member’s statement and ask the Minister of ECE a few questions here on early childhood. I’m very supportive of the Early Childhood Small Communities Initiative that’s been announced in the budget. It shows some good coordination. I’m wondering what the deficit is. I’m assuming this is known. What is the deficit in the number of child care spaces in the Northwest Territories and how many new daycare spaces does the government plan to open or support in the coming year?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Go forward with your motion.

That is really good to hear that we are on par, that we are on schedule. I look forward to that at our next sitting here. I know in the response that was provided, there was quite a number of recommendations that the Minister agreed to and that there was a commitment to providing updates on those as they worked towards achieving them and I don’t recall seeing any updates on that. I am wondering if I have just missed those. Are they reflected in some of the budgeting that I see before me on aboriginal languages here and if there is some updates that could be provided, I think that would be much...

Thank you, Mr. Jacobson. The motion is being distributed. The motion is in order. To the motion.

That probably does it, but I’m curious about the security side of things. We can probably spend as much as we want to on the security and I’m wondering is that something new or is that just a tune-up of an existing program? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Jacobson. I didn’t hear a question there. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a quick question. Under early learning and child care I see we have revenues of $272,000. I wonder if I could just get an explanation of that. Thank you.

Thank you Minister Lafferty. I have nobody else on the list here. Mr. Jacobson.

Thank you Mr. Krutko. Next I have Mr. Hawkins.