Caitlin Cleveland

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the federal government has awarded the Northwest Territories 197 spaces. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I want to be very clear with this response. There's no reductions to dollars being afforded to our child care providers. What you're seeing here is that when the agreement was first implemented, there wasn't, you know, a huge rush and an uptake of it, and so we ended up with a carryover. It also took time for us to get to the 300 spaces that -- additional 300 spaces of our targets that we were budgeted for, and so we ended up with carryovers year over year. And so what you're seeing there in the difference is a difference in one year has carryover...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, certainly we continue to work with Aurora College. Any, you know, funding requests that Aurora College brings forward to me that is ready to go to the financial management board, I bring those forward to the financial management board. Certainly, the operational decisions of Aurora College fall under the authority of the board of governors. But certainly having conversations with the chair around different opportunities that present themselves in front of us and, you know, how we can make sure that we are aligning ourselves to be prepared for those is...

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, 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. 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 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...