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Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 15)

We will just take it as a comment and continue to do the right type of practices when we are hiring, and utilizing the Regional Recruitment Program moving forward as well.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 15)

Yes, that's pretty well correct, and moving forward is just providing funding to integrate early intervention services. I will ask my deputy minister for a little bit more detail on that.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 15)

It will be August 1st when we start doing the assessments of the income that was brought forth in July when the federal government implements theirs. Thank you.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 15)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I had the opportunity to attend the Dechinta grad on Saturday and just for the record I'd like to let Members know who's all here and which community they're from. Congratulations once again Rachelle MacCauley from Tulita; Tumbah Antoine from Liidlii Kue Fort Simpson; Barbara Ann Blancho, Colville Lake; Sheila Karkagie, Tulita; Wade Clifford Vaneltsi, Fort McPherson; Chelsea Marie Migwy, Behchoko; Kayla Tulugarjuk from Igloolik. We're also getting students from Nunavut as well: Thumlee Etthenegon-Foliot. Once again, congratulations. I'd like to thank the staff for all...

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 15)

It was the corporate services position.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 15)

A lot of concerns are… Obviously graduation rates are a big concern and you can tie that in as well to attendance and looking at developing what we can do as government on the attendance issues in some of the communities.

With the inclusive schooling it also needs to reflect what some of the complex needs are in some of our communities in the Northwest Territories. I know that the schools also get funding on an enrolment basis so there's a lot of areas that the number brought up in terms of how we fund inclusive schooling, but we've also got to make sure that we have dollars and resources there...

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 15)

Thank you. Of that money, about $3.5 million is given to the Aboriginal language communities. It's something that we worked on through the last government in terms of providing funding for the Aboriginal groups/organizations so they can start delivering their programs to try to revitalize it. We're also always working with the federal government to try to get more money in this particular area as well as looking at trying to create multi-year agreements with them on terms of seeking funding for Aboriginal languages. Thank you.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 15)

I'll go to my assistant deputy minister, Mr. Lovely.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 15)

Yes, look forward to working on that piece of legislation and seeing where we can go. Obviously, we had some Members here in the House earlier, or some of the graduates in the House here today and some of the staff, and I think that they will be happy to hear that they got strong advocates of Regular Members on this side that are constantly asking. We all will be looking at moving that piece of legislation and seeing the work in consultation that needs to go into it. Thank you.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 15)

I believe that budget line item is under Industry, Tourism and Investment. Thank you.