Alfred Moses

Yes, and I appreciate the Member bringing up questions in terms of retroactive pay and whether the GNWT can focus that on their own in terms of funding as questions were in the House earlier today, and last time we did the income assistance increase was April 1st, 2015. The increase was about 20 per cent. Currently, our government doesn't have any policy to reflect changes in income assistance. We review on a case-by-case basis. To get to a couple of the other details, I will ask my deputy minister to get into a bit more details of the program and where we can see some real changes. As I...

Yes. I know we have the NWT association as well as the education authorities that have representatives under the collective agreement as well when we are looking at those areas as well. I will go to my deputy minister for more detail. It is right across the territory in terms of how the teachers are being funded. But the benefits, all those areas, we did give a brief presentation to committee in some of the ways we are going to be looking at fixing some of that, the way we fund our teachers. I will go to my deputy minister for more detail. Thank you.

Yes, that's correct. It's all the Aurora College Institute’s, but I was also referring to our learning centres as well.

For the income assistance changes, it will be August 1st, as mentioned in the House. We just have to get some minor changes done to the regulations for the child benefit. As the Member said, we are going to have to make some legislative changes to reflect that and that could be a little bit longer.

Yes. A lot of the questions that we talked about yesterday when we were going through this, and the other K to 12 system as well. As this is an information item, it is in these areas as well.

Yes. Well, we do have walk-ins that come into the offices in the regions. We have our ETOs working in the communities. Our staff now contacts employers that actually employ some of these individuals and help them understand what services and what kind of services can be provided to them.

I did mention the Regional Recruitment Program, a very successful program, that we look at employees that can move up into a higher position, get paid a little bit more. I believe they get 80 per cent of the salary, and then the other percent goes to training, but if that was what the Member was asking, or else there was something more specific, I just ask him to provide a little bit more detail, and we can see in terms of the direct appointments. We have gone through some more regional recruitments. Where the directors and managers actually recognize the employees that have been there for a...

With the universal child daycare programs and moving forward, right now I think the early stages that we have made in terms of the programs and subsidizing our daycares and putting more money into our daycares and day homes is the first step. Next we are going to be looking at developing that action plan per to the motion that was brought in the House. Right now, the funding changes that we have made is to have better services in the communities and to make sure that our daycares and our day homes are able to sustain their operations.

There is going to be significant increases throughout the Northwest Territories. I did make comments in the House on this last week and, as well, going to be making another statement moving forward on how we are going to be implementing this program. There will be benefits for low- to moderate-income families. For more details, I can ask my deputy minister to get into a little bit more detail. Thank you.

Thank you. With the small community employment support program, it's a program that's been around for many years. We're going to continue to do the work and focus on the training on the job as well as community initiative, provide project based on training. Training on the job has been very successful in our communities. Currently, I believe we do the program in 26 communities in the Northwest Territories. Small community is defined by any community that is less than 1,000 people. In the 2015-16 fiscal year we had 303 NWT residents participate; 196 went through the individual training on the...