Jackson Lafferty

When we initiated this Aboriginal Student Achievement Initiative, the cultural orientation was a big factor and we wanted to pursue that through the Aboriginal Student Achievement Initiative because it does cover the teachers, the students, the parents, the grandparents and the elders in the schools. Then there’s the NWT Teachers’ Association, as well, that falls under professional development. They can easily access professional development in that area, as well, but this is a specific area that we’ve highlighted and targeted with cultural orientation. We felt that it’s important for our...

Mr. Chair, we will need to extend the lease because it will take some time to plan towards the infrastructure, the capital planning process. Those are the discussions we are currently having and we’ll be talking more on the lease extension. Mahsi.

This is a particular program that falls under federal, the USEP program. We don’t deliver that.

This is an area that we may have to explore with the federal government. Again, it’s under jurisdiction of the federal government. I do take the Member’s note that this is a concern to the Member and...(inaudible)...counterparts as well.

That would fall under the next business planning process. With any recommendations that are brought forward to the attention of this government, obviously there will be incremental costs. So those are the areas that we need to look at and it will be before the House in due time. Mahsi.

Some of the committees are also covering more than one community. Those communities that may not have an appeal committee per se are covered through these different committees.

Mr. Chair, yes, we will be working with the community DEAs and DECs. It is the community’s decision, as well, to hire those individuals, so we’ll be working closely with them and other professions as well. Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. No, it’s not.

Mr. Chair, yes, we did follow through when the Member raised that issue in the House and also through the committee. We shared that with the college, Aurora College, and they are exploring and reviewing the different programming pertaining to sustainable energy. The Member also touched on other areas as well, biomass and oil burner mechanic and renewable resource energy tech. Those are areas that have been highlighted by the Member and the college is currently exploring that. We’re also exploring through the University of the Arctic as well. We just had a recent trip over there with the...

We can provide programming information that we do have. Programs such as the Labour Market Agreement or other specific programming that we can highlight to the Members.