R.J. Simpson

Thank you. Recently, we started working with the territorial support team, which is a group of professionals centred in Yellowknife. There are three positions right now, and they assist teachers in schools with instructions for children with higher needs. There is a speech pathologist, occupational therapist, and a mental health specialist, and they travel around the territory to the schools to do visits. They also offer remote support through telephone, email, et cetera, but that's what that increase is reflective of. Thank you.

Thank you. I can work with the Minister of Finance to figure that out. The amount that exists in the department of Education, Culture and Employment is zero because this is money that is applied for by the education councils, not by us. Thank you.

Thank you. I appreciate the Member's comments. She has been a very passionate supporter of Aurora College, as I hope everyone is. It is an institution that has reached into almost every community in the territory and has the potential to help the territory move forward into a new, prosperous future. The intake has been an issue, obviously. I know the former Member for Thebacha used to teach at that college. He said that, years ago, he'd have 30 students in his class, and he saw it dwindle year after year after year. I know people who had been there 10 years ago. They said the campus was much...

If you don't mind, I'd like to hand it over to Mr. MacDonald.

Thank you to the Member for the comment.

Thank you. The budget has remained the same, but there are more students projected to access it, so we budgeted it higher than we needed to, I guess, in the last round, so there were fewer students accessing it. Going forward, hopefully, we have more students accessing it.

The interpreters at the Legislative Assembly do an amazing job, and I'm sometimes in awe of all the languages that are spoken in this building. It is really like nowhere else. No other legislature around the world, I'm sure. To the Member's point, one of the additional actions that I discussed under the action plan is going to be updating the different terminologies. ECE is going to undertake that with Indigenous language experts and update the different terminologies for the legal terms, medical terms, et cetera, and are going to provide support to interpreters and arrange training...

Thank you. We are definitely putting thought into that. Our mandate is very heavy on increasing tourism outside of Yellowknife, helping build up local tourism infrastructure. That isn't specifically through ECE, but we all work together. The arts strategy is also going to look at how we can build on the strengths in the different communities. The regional economic plans that I think are happening throughout the departments will also inform that.

In Hay River, there is a great facility. It is an old building, and it needs some capital work. It would be a shame to just see that place shut down...

Thank you. I think the indications from the federal government is that this is funding that they would like to see entrenched. Perhaps I can hand it over to Mr. MacDonald, who might have some more information.

Thank you. I believe that there hasn't been a change in the budget, necessarily, but there were unbudgeted contributions that are now budgeted for. Those are to Dechinta and College nordique. Thank you.