Wendy Bisaro

I’ve mentioned a number of times that I think daycares need to be funded differently so that they can have some stable funding to rely on so they’re not living from hand to mouth from one week to the next. I guess I need to go back and ask the Minister, was there a review done? I’m a little confused by his last answer. He mentions a report. Was a review done, is there a report, and is it available for Members to see? Thank you.

I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what comes forward later on down the line. I did want to express my concern and I express it again.

I’m going to change tack a bit here. One of the concerns I think that’s been expressed by this department in terms of implementation of self-government agreements for the tables that they are currently negotiating and that also may be finished, one of the concerns that I have heard expressed is the underfunding by the federal government for implementation. I’d like to hear from the Minister or the department whether or not that’s still a concern and I guess...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are addressed to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. A while ago I was cleaning out my office and came across a paper that was a response from the Minister in answer to my questions about daycare funding from quite some time ago. I’ve expressed concerns several times to the Minister on the manner in which we fund our daycares. On February 15th, in answer to questions from Mr. Hawkins, the Minister stated that the department has done a review of this issue.

My first question to the Minister is this: what was the substance of that review...

Mr. Chairman, thanks to the Minister. That’s all I have. Thanks.

Mr. Chairman, thank you to the Premier. That is good to know. I think it was at the same workshop. There was some discussion about the development of a self-government policy for the GNWT. Is that part of the same work that has been done on the key features document or is that a separate policy that is being developed? Thank you.

I don’t have the paper right here where I got the info. I’ll look it up and let the Minister know. If people are still asking questions, I can come back to it.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I had a question with regard to the contributions under devolution negotiations. I note that in ‘11-12 the estimate is the same amount of money for the last year, the current budget year, for $40,000. In light of where things are at with regard to an AIP and devolution negotiations going forward, is that amount of money going to be enough? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a number of questions here. Initially I want to follow up on my colleague Mr. Abernethy’s comments with regard to the volunteer sector. I am totally supportive of his comments. I fully believe that we lack coordination of the voluntary sector across this government. I did want to point out, although it’s a matter of semantics perhaps, whether or not NGOs are a voluntary sector, I would think that, I can’t guarantee, but I would imagine 100 percent of non-government organizations are run by volunteer boards, and in my mind that makes them part of the voluntary...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I’d like to thank my colleagues for their remarks. I don’t know, Mr. Speaker, how many other ways I can say it; I am not asking or this motion does not ask for the policy to be opened. This motion asks for the priority hiring lists, which are not within the Affirmative Action Policy, to be opened. Those are listed in the Human Resource Manual. I don’t believe that’s a policy as a policy approved by Cabinet. I don’t think it is a policy that was approved by Cabinet.

I’d like to also point out to my colleagues that I am not advocating that a P2 with a disability have a...

Thanks to the Minister. I guess I’d like to know, then, what the focus of the regional leaders meetings is intended to be over this next year. If we have kind of gone through the AIP process, so to speak, and we will be moving on devolution elsewhere, what’s going to be the focus of these meetings as we go forward in the next fiscal year?