Alfred Moses

No, the students were not consulted about reductions moving forward. It was the Department of Education, Culture and Employment that was working closely with Aurora College to identify where reductions could be coming from. Evidencebased decisions on low graduation rates within these two programs were identified. Sometimes tough decisions need to be made, and those were the decisions that were brought forth to this government.

I just want to let Members know that Aurora College is continuing to support the students in these two programs to completion, working with them, supporting them to make...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That decision was made on the recommendation of all the board chairs. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I’ll pass that question to my deputy minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just recently we increased the funding to Dechinta to the tune of $500,000 per year. It is a multiyear agreement with them. We don't have the specific details on College nordique, but we can look at getting that. Last year, we did provide funding to College nordique of $354,000. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Pending that we have partnership with an organization in the community, I think it is going to be a possibility. Moving forward, we are working with the other departments on projects that they have, as well, through other areas, but pending that we do have those partnerships with organizations and have an employer that we can definitely deliver this, it would be a great idea following our Skills 4 Success as well as onthejob training and the skill development for our residents. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. That work is going to go to an RFP here, probably within the next couple of weeks. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, that is the plan. As you've seen in some of the EDI results at the presentation this afternoon, in some of our smallest communities we are seeing some concerns, and we want to address those concerns. The plan is to get a program support teacher in every community. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, and I think Mr. Lovely with his response earlier answered that question with the future reductions going on with the college. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have seen some success in this program. I do believe we had 200 people in the last fiscal year do onthejob training, and then an additional 69 through some of the community projects. So it is being utilized. We also have to make sure that our communities also take some of that responsibility in getting some of their residents employed, and that is where we have the partnerships on community projects as well as the wage subsidy. So we want to work with employers, we want to work with our stakeholders, in getting our residents into jobs. We have seen it work. We have...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With the Small Community Employment Support Program as well as the contract services, the question asked earlier, was that money fully utilized, we said it wasn't. We have to get the details on where those pots of money didn't get fully utilized. I will get back to the Member on that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.