Caitlin Cleveland

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I'd say it's kind of in three big buckets, so to speak. So there is the work being done first on aligning people with new opportunities within similar workforces. So for example, participating actively in career fairs and making sure that we're bringing together, as best as we can, other opportunities. So a great example is working directly with Diavik, for example, and their career fairs that they did have.

The second bucket that I would draw the Member's attention to is the workforce development training. So if people are wanting to leave the career...

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, we review the safe schools plans on a three-year revolving basis, and if -- with our education bodies. And if there are any adjustments that need to be made within that time frame, we certainly support education bodies to achieve those. So that is something that is happening on the regular. Education bodies also practice their protocols multiple times a year. And, certainly, as I said, ECE is always there to support education bodies on what they need in either application or practice or process on the back end. Thank you.

Thank you very much. So we would have had a grant that we would have contributed to the literacy council in that form, and it's not going to be a perfect split because you're also going to have forced growth increases from Aurora College for their leases as well that are involved in this. So just so the Member knows, you're not looking for, you know, a straight line item to line item difference here because there's also increases to Aurora College included in that for the forced growth of their rental units for Stanton Suites as well as Northern United Place. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So, Mr. Speaker, inclusive schooling in the Northwest Territories uses a tiered responsive model, which means it starts with good teaching for everyone, and then from there you add in small group help when needed, provide extra one-on-one supports to students who need it more, so getting a tiered approach that allows teachers to kind of narrow in to smaller groups as students need it but starting with the larger cohort to begin with. The new adapted curriculum, Mr. Speaker, itself incorporates foundational early learning components that align with evidence-based...

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I had the opportunity to just recently be at a federal-territorial-provincial table with my counterparts, and it was very clear that a lot of the flexibilities that they are looking for don't really apply to the territorial jurisdictions. Our jurisdictions are a little bit different, and one of the challenges that we end up having is that when programs are population-based without a substantial foundation or base funding underneath that, they don't necessarily speak very well to the realities of the territories which have a higher cost of living...

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So we don't have a piece of legislation that is sitting on a shelf, per se, ready to go. There has been work done in the background as far as what pieces of existing legislation would need to be imported into new legislation, so what parts of the Aurora College Act would still stand. And in addition, Mr. Chair, there's work that's been done to look at the pieces of legislation from other jurisdictions across the Canada -- or -- across Canada -- my goodness -- across Canada, for example, in the Yukon, to make sure that we're looking at other lessons learned and...

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, you know, ensuring that we're thinking, you know, not just about JK to 12 but other potential opportunities, especially when it comes to multi uses of facilities as the Member is talking about. Behchoko new school, I think is a great opportunity. You know, gone are the days where we use, you know, a piece of infrastructure for one thing. I think we always have to be thinking about how we can expand, creative uses of dollars, and get more bang for our buck across the territory.

That said, right now in -- in the Northwest Territories, we are rolling out...

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, my work and the department's work with this has largely been to support the college when it identifies priorities and when it identifies that it needs support, so whether that's knowing, you know, what federal minister to talk to, different federal programs that are available, and then also knowing, you know, different entities within town that might be interested in doing -- forming partnerships for this purpose. And so at this point, the relationship and conversations have been based in support, not based in ECE doing anything on part of Aurora...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I continue to advocate, with all of my Cabinet colleagues, in regards to the issue of Jordan's Principle. In addition, I've been advocating alongside Ministers, education Ministers from other jurisdictions, especially my territorial counterparts, and will continue to do so. And at the same time, we are reviewing our inclusive schooling directive as well as making sure that I am reaching back into education bodies in regards to our support assistants initiative to find out if that works for them or not. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, absolutely, this line item is very heavily supported by the federal government with the introduction of the average $10-a-day Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement. Those agreements were distributed across the country to which people signed on to. One of the things that we as jurisdictions have noted across the country is the funding does not meet the need of jurisdictions across Canada and, really, in order to make sure that we are sustainable with our early learning and child care, we either need to become more flexible or we need to fund it...