Caitlin Cleveland

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, this is a federal program, and the agreement and parameters of that agreement are defined by the federal government. Thank you.

Sorry, I am just going to go to the next -- can I get -- so I see that there is a difference of about 7 -- $600,000. Oh, and that's in relation to the closure of the community learning centres, Mr. Chair, and our memorandum of understanding that we had for the delivery of adult learning and basic education. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, certainly there are some positive indications coming out of where that process is so far. I understand that Aurora College intends to share some of that process in the spring this year, and that will give us an indication of what those timelines will look like. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Yes, Mr. Chair, there was a time in the end of the last calendar year where -- for the applications that were coming forward in January, that Aurora College needed to just put a pause on it in order to get some computer stuff fixed up, but there was never an intent to not offer the programming at all. So both Aurora College offers the programming in English and Collège Nordique offers it in French. Thank you.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, certainly I would need to find within education, culture and employment somewhere to pull those dollars from at a time where we need more and more dollars for education. So I can certainly go back and see where I can pull those dollars from, but I certainly welcome any suggestions from Members as well. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the funding that's appropriated by this House to education bodies across Northwest Territories is determined through the school funding formula. That school funding formula takes into account the inclusive schooling directive which is where we find a lot of the supports, like therapeutic services for example, that Jordan's Principle funding often supplements. We're in the process of reviewing the inclusive schooling directive because we do acknowledge that the education body, our students across the Northwest Territories, and their needs have drastically...

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, I absolutely agree with the Member that we're in a very different world than we were in 2018, and that it's important that the programs that we're offering and how we're offering them evolve with the times. And so, really, we're with the Member on that one. We are working on a renewed approach in collaboration with Indigenous governments and communities on this, which is critically important.

This budget also has continuation of the mentor apprenticeship program, which every year we see increases in the number of pairs that are coming forward in...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, we continue to share information both between the NWTTA education bodies with Housing NWT, with Indigenous governments as well, to make sure that we're sharing information so that the needs are known. We've been able to work successfully with Housing NWT on when needed acquiring teacher housing or changing policies to make sure that we are doing our part to retain teachers. And we've also had the -- we've also seen in our capital budgets, dollars come forward in order to do improvements on teacher housing that is still within ECE stock as well. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the House will see that bill in the May-June session. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, certainly, you know, it's one of those successes where you were excited for about five seconds and then realized what it actually meant. And just to the Member's point, even though we are seeing success we're not stopping there. We know that child care is very much needed across the territory, and we want to ensure that those spaces are accessible. So we've not slowed down. We've not kind of taken our foot off the gas. We're still pursuing those child care spots because the benefit to the territory far exceeds that. So we're seeing, you know...