Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I just want to ask the Minister of ECE on this last day, I am curious to know where things are at with Aurora College. It's always something I want to find out about during sessions. So I am curious to know where we're at with the implementation of the mandate agreement. Is that agreement being reported on anywhere publicly? How is the public to know where Aurora College is at in their progress? Thank you.
Thank you, Member from Frame Lake. Minister of Education, Culture and Employment.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. So, Mr. Speaker, currently, Aurora College continues to work through its implementation plan, and I can say that in the last meeting that I was able to have with the deputy Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, the president of Aurora College, and the chair of the Aurora College board of governors, that the implementation plan is on track and in progress right now. So, Mr. Speaker, in that most recent meeting, I also did pass along much of the same comments that we're getting from the Member right now, which is that a progress tracker that is updated or updates to that implementation plan that's found in the back of the mandate agreement would be helpful to the public and being able to really tell the success story of the good work that they've been doing over the last bit. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Well, I am happy to provide a bit of public pressure behind that initiative that the Minister just suggested so I would just, yeah, put my support behind that and would like to see that as well.
Mr. Speaker, I know that the college was -- or the Minister's office was advertising board appointments. How is that process going, and when can we expect to see a fully appointed and -- well, full appointments to the board? Thank you.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Member is right. Just recently the deadline passed for the closure of the call for applications to the board of governors. And that process is underway, and those announcements will be made imminently. Thank you.
Thank you, Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. Final supplementary. Member from Frame Lake.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate hearing that, and I am glad to hear that it is imminent.
Mr. Speaker, are there any other milestones that the college has coming up in the near future that the public should keep their eye out for? And, certainly, I will keep my eye out for it.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there are a number of things that the college continues to work on that is found in the implementation plan on page 6 of the mandate agreement. The most exciting piece of that, Mr. Speaker, is that in December, the CAQC from Alberta -- so that's the accreditation body -- did travel up to the campuses here in the Northwest Territories as part of their process, and they are currently working on that process with Aurora College. And my understanding is that it was quite a successful trip and that this spring Aurora College intends to come out with very detailed information about what that process has looked like to this point and what it means for the remainder of 2026 for the college itself. So I very much look forward to being able to share that information once the college puts it out publicly. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. Oral questions. Member from Frame Lake.
