David Krutko

Thank you. Next I have Ms. Bisaro.

Deputy Minister Daniels.

With that, I’d like to thank the Minister and your witnesses. Sergeant-at-Arms, could you escort the witnesses out. With that, I will rise and report progress.

Clarification. Mrs. Groenewegen, I believe that when we moved into Committee of the Whole, the direction was we were going to deal with the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. Clarification; is that the direction? What’s the wish of the committee? Mrs. Groenewegen.

Mr. Daniels.

Deputy Minister Daniels.

Mr. Lafferty, that’s a yes again. Okay. Next I have Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, I’d just like to get some direction from the Minister. I know this is a program for the Northwest Territories but it does require that at one point you can appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada regarding funding. I’d like to know if as part of the review that I put forward to the Minister, if he would also consider reviewing the programs we have and look at the federal programs to see if there’s the possibility of correlating our programs with the federal program in case there are additional resources needed for these type of court challenges, but they can access...

Minister of Education, Mr. Lafferty.

For the record, I’ll read out the totals again. Advanced education, grants and contributions, contributions, total contributions, $33.493 million.

If we can move back to page 10-7, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $285.895 million.