Caitlin Cleveland

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we endeavour to make sure that we are seeing more funding flow out of education, culture and employment for workforce development training dollars rather than through income assistance and want to make sure that if we have residents of this territory who want to work and are looking for opportunities that we're working closely with businesses, Indigenous development corporations, and residents themselves to support them, to find opportunities within the territory, and then also even working, for example, with opportunities within Nunavut. So there are...

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. So, Mr. Speaker, when we travel, whether it's individually or all together as a group or with Council of Leaders, we are certainly making sure that we are explaining the realities of life in the Northwest Territories, the treaties that we honour here in the Northwest Territories, the work that we do together, and the needs of residents of this territory as well. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it's important to note that our client navigators do not have a social work background, that they are already very busy in their current roles working to understand the finances of Northerners and to ensure that they are being responsive to the financial need of Northerners. Before, when Productive Choices was used by education, culture and employment, it was incredibly administratively burdensome and so understanding the workload that already exists for client navigators, we need to make sure that whatever program that we bring into play for the...

I would like to pass to the deputy minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So the loan limit for students incorporates any form of loan that they have. So if they have a remissible loan and a repayable loan, it's all found within that $90,000 limit. And as they pay it down, it allows them to continue to incur more loan funding under that amount. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, unfortunately my calendar does not align very well next month with the Minister of Infrastructure. But we do, as much as we can, work together and make sure that we're briefing one another before we go into communities, and so I can commit to the Member to ensuring that I am having conversations with the Minister of Infrastructure both before and after his visit, and I look forward to hearing all about his tour up the winter road. And I can also commit to the Member that I will be meeting with Imperial Oil next month as well. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, we're finishing up this work to the end of this fiscal year. First, we are considering the needs of different education bodies and the needs of their education needs in each of their communities, and then from there, we're evaluating whether or not it would be suitable housing for the purpose -- sorry, suitable land for the purpose of housing. Thank you.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, the efforts under the legislation for a Polytechnic University Act have not been paused. That work is still underway. There is a matter of the accreditation process with the Campus Alberta Quality Assurance -- thank you -- Quality Council that needs to happen in order for the legislation to go through and for us to be ready for that. And Aurora College has hit the first milestone where CAQC has traveled to the Northwest Territories, and they are now working with CAQC on the requirements as part of that process. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, huge thank you to BC on that. They were able to support us when we were looking for something that we could take off the shelf and adapt to our NWT context. So we were able to implement that. And at this point, I have nothing new to report as we continue to implement that across the territory. Thank you.