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. That is a goal of the department, that we want our residents to be working and getting the skills and the training that they need to be employable. Definitely a goal. We do see the startling numbers on income assistance and making sure that we try to provide every opportunity for our residents to get into the workforce. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Obviously, there are a lot of partners at play in terms of this question; Aurora College, our department, Public Works and Services. Public Works and Services does provide work on behalf of us. With the Aurora College working with NUP, it's also the landlord's responsibility to look at some of these deficiencies in the maintenance. 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...