Alfred Moses

Well, as you can see in the last callout, there was a couple of different organizations, including ourselves, that was asking for funding and put in an application. It doesn't have to be government-sponsored to get that funding. Thank you.

Any concerns that were brought to the attention of the office, we clarified the situation. As I mentioned, we've taken out the Canada Child Benefit that was introduced on July 1st, so we wouldn't count them in the assessments, meaning that all children and all families, in fact, got the full amount of the Canada Child Benefit and we just clarified anything that came up. Since that, we haven't heard any concerns since then.

Yes, thank you. I believe the business case in the proposal that Dechinta was asking from the specific fund was in the amount of $5 million.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. At this time I'd like to welcome my cousin, William Greenland to the House and also a well-renowned artist here in the Northwest Territories. Welcome.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, we were aware that Dechinta had made that application. Thank you.

Yes, I do, Mr. Chair. Thank you.

Yes, Mr. Speaker, duties from the reduction of that position were uptaken by the six other staff in that department. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The CSFTNO were working collaboratively with the departments when that proposal was submitted and in terms of the schematic designs that did meet our capital standards were put into the designs that were presented to APADY as well as to CSFTNO. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We can meet but I mean, as I mentioned, that we're meeting our standards for construction of capital projects and the court order. In terms of the proposal going forward, as I mentioned, if you want to add the cultural side of things and add things, which is unique because it's only the French schools that can access that funding, we need to ensure what those additions are, and we can't get the specifics until we have that schematic design. I am willing to sit down with the Member a little bit later and give him some ideas on what we can do in terms of next steps as well...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I know when we went through the business planning process for main estimates for 2017-2018 we had some really good discussions on some ways and unique ways that we can get people back into the workforce through our Income Assistance Program, and the Member brought a very interesting concept forward and it's something that the department can look into. Obviously, you don’t want to have people relying on income assistance rather than finding ways to get them into the workforce, into training and skill development and becoming a more active member of society. So we are...