Alfred Moses

Thank you, Mr. Chair. When we were working on the potential reductions with the Aurora College, we did send information to the clerk's office to share with the standing committee. Once the revisions were made, we did send that to committee as well, and the main estimates in December, I believe. It might have been December 20th. I would have to confirm the dates with that. I do believe Members should have been aware of this last year at some time. Then January 9th, I believe, was the very finalized draft in the main estimates that was presented to committee. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. In 2015-16 there was extra funding that the department had put into the program, but historically it is the amount that you see in this year's main estimates. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Currently, we're just in the preliminary stages. We're just developing a working group to get started on that work. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Our commitment under the ministerial directive is that we are going to see a program support teacher in all of the schools. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, we did not. I will look at some of those to the question the Member asked. With these program cuts, they are being phased out, so with the social work program, it will still run for two years. The TEP program will go until 2020. Once we have that strategy out with Aurora College, we will see where we will be directing our resources. At this time we are not even sure if another program will replace it, but we will see when the strategy comes out, how we will take those into consideration. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Currently, we are still staying within the same parameters of how we do the wage subsidy or the community projects in partnership with communities, whether it is employers or Aboriginal bands. It is something that we can definitely take a look at, but that is still going to take some time. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. At the FTP level, labour market agreement for persons with disabilities is, I want to say, a hot-ticket item. We all know, as the Member has stated, that people do have disabilities in that age range. It has been discussed at the FTP level, so hopefully we will start to see more supports from the federal government on that side of things moving forward.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm not sure which specific on-the-job training that the Member is referring to, but I know the college does provide that type of training already for certain areas that do need those skills developed, and the training opportunities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and currently all schools that are wanting to participate in the pilot are working on how it is going to roll out. I also want to say that it is up to 100 hours; it is not completely 100 hours. It is going to be up to the schools to make those distinctions and decisions, but we will continue to monitor and evaluate, like any of our pilot programs that we have right now and look at the successes, and if there are any challenges for how we need to adjust those. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. From my understanding, April 1, 2015, was the last time we seen an increase. Thank you.