Caitlin Cleveland

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. So, Madam Chair, certainly the business plans were developed specific to the nominee program with the previous allocations in mind, not expecting -- I don't think anybody across the country expected their allocations to be cut in half, and so we will certainly have to pivot to ensure that we remain in line with the guidelines afforded to us by the federal government.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that's manager of capital planning. It came with the ELC agreement with Canada, so it's fully funded and is to help us be able to distribute the funds through our infrastructure fund that we received from the Government of Canada. And it is a term position. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, the school year ends in June but, of course, it takes time for schools to be able to compile data. They've got a lot of data that we are starting to share now. And so we're looking at working towards early next school year for that type of baseline. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I absolutely want people to be able to access anything that we are allowed to within the contract that we have signed with the federal government. One of the pieces of that is us being able to maintain that $10 a day fee for families. Certainly, the Government of Alberta does have deeper pockets than us, and so I would commit to looking into that and where that discrepancy comes from. Thank you.

I absolutely heard the Member and very much appreciate her comment.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, Skills Canada does still exist as does Skills NWT, and we make a contribution agreement to Skills NWT every year, and that's a cost shared agreement, and it is $155,000 between the GNWT and the federal government that is provided through contribution agreement to Skills NWT.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, the way that it was restructured was that 55 percent of the funding would come from education, culture and employment, and that funding was focused on things like wellness support workers or personal support workers, or it could be through Indigenous counsellors within schools. It was really up to the schools to determine what that looked like at the end of the day. The only ask from ECE is that there was component -- a component of prevention that was within it and so that it wasn't exclusive to clinical care for one-on-one experiences, that...

Mr. Speaker, meetings with childcare providers are already happening. This is something that I take very seriously. I want our sector to have that stability. I think what would also be helpful, because it did come up yesterday and I do have more information, it was in regards to the ability for operators to have a contingency fund. There is the ability of them to have that with some restrictions, and they can identify -- sorry, there is a three-month cap on ELC ECE funding that can be used for a contingency fund. It says that the three-month equivalent can only equate to approximately 25...

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, and as the ADM was coming into the room, she did mention to me that those staff are housed in the North Slave office. So that would be here in Yellowknife.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, there is quite a significant number that's under the actuals that's not reflected in the following years. And so what we're seeing there, and the reason that the subsequent numbers are so different, is there is $2 million -- sorry, lowered by $2 million due to sunset of education renewal and innovation funding. And then there's also fiscal sustainability reductions, and those fiscal sustainability reductions were what I was referring to with that switch to virtual training. And then there's -- there was also a significant overspend in that year...