Charles Dent

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, we insist that if we offer the training in the Northwest Territories, that’s where we will pay for the apprentice to go to take the training.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That carries on from the line above, so it's case management administration system, system enhancements. So those are a computer program that we use to keep track of income support and student financial assistance and other things like that. It's used across the Northwest Territories. Most of the hardware will be located here in Yellowknife.

Thank you, Madam Chair. It was a scheduled or expected reduction. It’s a residual that’s been left over from the training program we initiated some years ago. It’s not part of the overall budget reduction exercise.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think it’s important in the first year, in particular, of the transfer of responsibility of the program, there will be absolutely no change in the administration. The program will still be delivered through the partnerships that were established by the Housing Corporation. The LHOs will be the agencies that deliver the program and there is no decision that there would be a change to that sometime in the future. Obviously we are going to look at how the program is structured and how it’s delivered, but any change is sometime down the road. We are not sure when that...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If you’d look at the top of page 9-27, you’ll see literacy funding. You’ll notice that the difference between the 2004-05 main and revised estimates and the main estimates for 2005-06 is $300,000. That’s the $300,000 I spoke about.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's a result of there being 33 fewer students enrolled at the end of September this school year, compared to the previous school year.

Thank you, Madam Chair. On my right is the deputy minister of the department, Mr. Mark Cleveland; on my left is Mr. Paul Devitt, director of management services.

Mr. Chairman, I assume the Member is talking about page 9-34 now.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The college has the ability to determine where they run their programs. It’s administered by a board and I think that they are quite interested in offering as many programs regionally as they can. To be honest though, they’re somewhat challenged because the amount of money we’re handing on to them has not increased; in fact, it has gone down over the years. So they are challenged to deliver any more programming than they otherwise would.

If the Member can demonstrate to them the economies that might occur by using the camps that may be available for very little cost in...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe that both positions are in Rae. It's two equivalent positions, so it's equivalent to full-time equivalents. Given the caseload in the Tlicho region, that's not an unreasonable number when you compare the numbers that we have through regions across the Territories. There is not a big caseload in the Dogrib region. There are not a lot of people who are on income support. The economy has really dramatically impacted the numbers in the whole North Slave region that are collecting income support at present.