Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks. And any changes then from last year? Thanks, Madam Chair.

All right. Well, I don't believe I heard and as I said, I don't have the Minister's opening remarks in front of me and I don't have they're not available on Lootle. I don't believe the Minister said there was any reductions anywhere in the Department of Justice budget. Can the Minister confirm that there were no reductions according to the FMB classifications, because I don't think that was in the Minister's opening remarks. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I move that this committee defer further consideration of the estimates for the Department of Education, Culture and Employment at this time. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Okay, thanks. I guess where I'm going with this is that, you know, even in the Minister's opening remarks, and I don't have them in front of me, I can't access them on Lootle. There was not one mention of reductions in the department. And so how was this actual reduction in the main estimates, how does it appear in what the Minister said in classifying the changes in the departmental budget from his opening remarks this morning or earlier this afternoon? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I'd like to get that information from the Minister. I think several of or some other MLAs would be interested in getting that as well.

And while the Minister's putting that together, could he also put together statistics in terms of how many were granted or how many were rejected for the last couple of years? I just would like to get a sense of that, because if there are a number of students that have and if that, you know, we have an increasing number over the last couple of years and more of them are getting rejected, that's grounds for changing the...

Thank you, Madam Chair. So the review that was done, has that been made available to the public? And if not and if there needed to be some redactions in terms of personnel matters or whatever, I could understand that, but is that a publicly available document? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks. I love Hay River but I'm from Yellowknife but thanks, Madam Chair.

Can the Minister tell us whether any jurisdictions in Canada have looked at providing some flexibility in terms of student eligibility for financial assistance, given COVID, postsecondary education students? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks. I don't have anything further.

Thanks, Madam Chair. On page 58 is the Students Loan Fund, and, you know, I guess I'd like to ask during the COVID pandemic of the last couple years, I had heard that some students lost, you know, a year or two of education or started, you know, maybe classes in person and then when they switched to virtual, that didn't really meet their learning needs.

What, if any, flexibility or extension to, you know, student eligibility periods or anything like that has been or were loan payments put on pause or whatever; what accommodation was made during the pandemic with regard to the student financial...

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that. I'll be happy to send her the list of creditors from the courtappointed receivers website, so.

But as I understand it, GNWT has decided to try to market the Mactung property and the Cantung mine site with the feds but there has been little to no interest over seven years. Can the Minister explain what is going on with proposed sale of the Mactung property and when the taxpayers of the NWT can expect to recover their socalled "investment"? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.