Caitlin Cleveland

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, the plan includes not just, you know, one avenue or one item. It includes many different -- like, a suite of supports for residents, and that's everything from, you know, our wage subsidies and supports for employers so that people can do on the job training. That also includes our wage subsidy, for example, for apprentices and creating additional pathways for people to access things like apprenticeship. It includes things, for example, like our transition to the BC curriculum in order to ensure that students are supported to get to a level of...

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. So, Mr. Speaker, the Aurora College mandate -- well, I believe, has now gone out. I believe it's all in our in-boxes. Thank you very much. And so that mandate agreement commits Aurora College to 2027.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have heard from the YK Daycare Association, and I'm very happy to meet with them. I'm very happy to meet with any organization that would like to sit down, and they also have constant access as well to ECE, to their early childhood coordinators, and I know that the director of early childhood and learning has also met with people. Thank you.

Thanks very much, Mr. Chair. So that funding would be found in the education section because it will be delivered to the education bodies through contribution agreement. So we have received that funding now from the Government of Canada, and we are in the process of putting together each of those contribution agreements with our education bodies to ensure that those dollars flow out the door as quickly as possible. I also think it's worth noting here that there is 100 percent carryover with those dollars between this year and next year knowing that we are so close to the end of the fiscal year...

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. So, Mr. Speaker, the -- sorry, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

So if the Member is looking for information on the clinicians, that would be with health and social services, and then in regards to staffing from the ECE side, we have a number of positions. We have a regional mental wellness coordinator. And then in Fort Providence, we also have a mental wellness student support worker and an Indigenous health and wellness worker. And then in Kakisa, we have staffing in progress for an Indigenous health and wellness elder. And, sorry, just...

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, to my left is Jamie Fulford, deputy minister of Education, Culture and Employment. And to my right is Terri-Lynn Locke-Setter who is the assistant deputy minister of corporate services.

No, thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I've heard the Member in regards to staffing concerns. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I'd like to start my statement today in Inuvialuktun. [Translation] Mr. Speaker, “let us speak together.” That is the theme of this year’s Indigenous Languages Month, which we celebrate every February. This month, we encourage residents to speak together in homes, in classrooms and in communities. Indigenous Languages Month is a time to honour and celebrate Indigenous languages. This year’s theme emphasizes the collective responsibility in revitalizing our Indigenous languages. Every conversation in an Indigenous language strengthens its future.

Mr. Speaker, for generations...

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, so this section here is the early learning section so it is the staff that help support early learning and childcare, and they are not -- they're just -- the education section is farther along, so that would speak to those positions. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I'd love to pass to the assistant deputy minister, and if the Member wants more detailed information, always happy to have offline conversations with the Member or we can follow up depending on where the questions go. Thank you.