Julian Morse

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd just like to quickly recognize Frame Lake page Charlotte Hilton who is in the House today. Again, thank you so much for your service, and we've really been enjoying having the pages in the House, as always, this week. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I do appreciate the Minister's answers here and will look more into those programs and perhaps seek a bit more information from her about them. But back to the point, I am -- you know, considering that we've already taken the step of giving our Indigenous students unlimited semesters, I mean, would it really make so much of a difference to change policy to allow those students to access some of their SFA funding for bridging programming just knowing that we are -- yeah, I think I already made the case. I think the case can be made again. I can save that for a Member's...

Frame Lake. Thanks, Mr. Chair. All the chairs get the lakes mixed up. It's easy to do.

The -- what I wanted to start to get at with the Minister here is just whether we could be considering changing the way SFA programming is done to better align with some of the goals we have. For example, we are working on health recruitment. We want to be growing the number of homegrown doctors, nurses. And so has the Minister considered, or I guess Cabinet considered, whether we could use programs in SFA to do that. So, for example a couple of years ago, it was -- the program was rolled back. I can't...

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. I will have to look through that mandate agreement again. I have scanned through it in the past but will look again. I think that's all my questions for this page for now. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The deputy minister was 90 percent there. What I was looking for is details on exactly what they are working on currently. So he was saying there's a number of steps that need to be done. I am trying to better understand what those steps are and the department's progress on them just so I can have a better sense of where we're at with the transition. So I was just looking for you to elaborate on those points. Thanks.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your committee would like to report on its consideration of Bill 35, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act 2026.

Bill 35 received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on October 31st, 2025, and was referred to the standing committee of Government Operations for review. The standing committee completed its clause-by-clause review of the bill with the Minister of Justice on February 16th, 2026.

Mr. Speaker, the committee reports that Bill 35, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act 2026, is ready for consideration in Committee of the Whole. Thank you...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Probably not something I'd hear from families on, but I certainly haven't heard complaints that we have too many spaces available. So I guess what I would ask is how are we managing this -- I don't want to call it a problem. I think it's a success. But of course it's a success that's come with a cost. So how are we managing that, and how do we mitigate the success of this program? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, does the Yellowknife airport have enough land for any kind of meaningful expansion? I know that the DND has talked about a fair number of things, so I am curious if we even have land available to do so. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. Yeah, I appreciate that work by the Minister and certainly hope that she's able to make some progress at some point because I think that flexibility is something that families are looking for. But, I mean, at least we have the volunteer funding that can be used. I mean, the last time I spoke to child care providers about this, that was what they were looking for, was something along those lines. So at least we have that but would like to see some more progress, indeed. Yeah, just emphasizing, and if I can, get it on the record, that the main message that families brought to me...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate these insights from the Minister. So the next obvious question here, of course, is knowing that the facility is out of sight when will a solution be brought forward in the five-year capital plan for the airport? Thank you.