Kieron Testart

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So how -- again, the Minister just committed that timelines would be shortened with new staffing with the success of this new communication. How much shorter? Because time is of the essence. Again, we are expecting transformational, generational change, massive investment from the military. We need to be ready. So is the Minister -- can the Minister tell me how much shorter that timeline's going to be?

Merci, Monsieur le President. [Translation] The only post-secondary French institution was opened in Canada, north of the 66th parallel, ever since its founded inception. In 2011, the college has continued to develop its programs and placed Northwest Territories as an educational pole in terms of Francophone education. The success of this initiative is such that their partnerships go beyond our borders, with Yukon and Nunavut. As such, the College Nordique Francophone is positioned to begin to serve Francophone communities throughout the North, and therefore creating a unique educational...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, and granted that these will be different programs. So just to clarify, this -- will there be -- what are the strings attached to this new funding so education bodies can understand? Is it the same policies that covered inclusive education -- or inclusive schooling funding before, or are we expanding the criteria to ensure the dollars reach farther and address some of those things that Jordan's Principle was filling? Because that's partially why we're so dependent on Jordan's Principle, the money wasn't going far enough, and it wasn't being -- it couldn't be...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Going back to the inclusive schooling review, what is the total funding need that's been identified by that review? The Minister referenced that it may, in fact, be greater than $30 million. As we're broaching that subject now, if she could inform the House of what that total gap looks like. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Okay, so that's good. Because I was surprised to hear yesterday in the closing remarks for the main estimates that because of the advocacy of Members $30 million is going to be spent to meet the needs identified through the inclusive schooling review. How were Regular Members able to advocate to meet the needs when we haven't even read the review? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. And, finally, and here's the literal million-dollar question. They've lost about -- the institution has lost about $2 million from the federal government. It's unsure where that's going to go. Investing in stable Francophone institutions is part of the NWT's commitment to official languages in the Northwest Territories, and in Canada indeed. So will the Minister increase funding to College Nordique to strengthen the institution, provide more training capacity for Northerners, and bring more Francophones into the Northwest Territories through schooling, post-secondary, and...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to note, I guess for the record, that this motion, should it carry, joins many calls for regulation of private security companies in the Northwest Territories from several Members of this Assembly. And I think it's important that the government recognize that now a standing committee is joining that as well. It's not, you know, concerns of individual Members raised but it is the concerns shared by one of the committees of this Assembly. So I encourage the committee to vote in favour of this motion. As a result, it's very important that we regulate this. And...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And that is appreciated, and that is exactly what the institution is asking for. The opportunity to work with multiple departments exists as well to ensure that funding structures meet with long-term policy objectives of the GNWT. We do have our French language -- French secretariat as well. So can the Minister work with CNF to bring them into the attention of other departments that may need the services in -- French language training services to support the work of the public service? Thank you.

Thank you. So the key concern here is that the way the bill was drafted initially, it only applied to the RCMP, which the RCMP welcomed as an additional tool in the toolkit. But when the committee put questions to the RCMP around, will this increase your workload, do you anticipate seeing more issues, they said, no, because we already get a ton of complaints related to trespass, and this just allows us to deal with those when we want to proceed them. But the flip side to that is, so what good -- there's not going to be a huge rush of operational need and we're going to be short RCMP members...

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I think these kind of motions around housing are very important. We just are -- we've seen an auditor general report about the conditions of housing programs, especially homeownership programs, and the issue of transferring units -- or community transfers of homeownership is a problem. And it's one that the housing corporation -- sorry, NWT Housing is working on, which is good and, you know, they've made commitments to time-bound measurable things. But in the meantime, we need to do things differently, and this motion specifically speaks to that...