Alfred Moses

Yes, we're always looking at ways that we can improve the systems and supports that we give to our stakeholders and our partners. The one thing that I did mention in the Minister's statement is that we're looking at multi-year funding agreements right now just on a year-to-year basis. We're looking at ways that can make it easier for operators to stay open and still be able to do their operations and have them a little more stable and sustainable as well in terms of not having to always come back and reapply for that funding.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The question was brought up from the Member, and we have the department looking into it. We're also waiting for the Beaufort Delta Education Council to receive a request from the school. I encourage the Member and the staff at Moose Kerr School in Aklavik to talk with the education council as well as the education authority to see about getting that process moved. We obviously want to support the cultural activities in the small communities, all communities, in the Northwest Territories, and I encourage the Member to speak with the staff to bring that request forward...

Yes. Definitely out of the department we can look at providing that information from a department, but working with my Cabinet colleagues to look at those as well, and as the Minister had mentioned, he can look into that and get back to the Member when it was a question in the House, but we definitely can.

We are re-profiling that amount of money and I will go to the deputy minister to get into the details of how that money is going to be re-profiled. Thank you. Deputy minister Stewart.

I would say by the fall. We are currently working with the Aboriginal organizations right now to develop those plans, so as those plans are being developed, we will also be creating those monitoring and evaluation plans as well. We are looking at the fall and we will make sure that committee is up to speed on those as well. Thank you.

Thank you. It's always a concern that we bring up as well, whether being on the Regular Members’ side or now in my new position. It is a requirement by the federal government and we can ask them but we can't tell them to do the changes. It's something that they have initiated themselves. It’s all about accountability and we want to make sure that departments are accountable and that organizations are accountable for the dollars that we do access.

Yes, just looking for the details on this one, but we will go to our deputy minister to provide a little bit of detail. Thank you.

Yes, out of that report it did talk about more consultation with the communities and specifically the communities that have had the program before. You want to make sure what's worked, what hasn't, we want to get an inventory of the resources, the space that’s available in the some of the communities that want to implement it. Initially, I believe there was 23 communities that did look at trying to do daycares, I mean junior kindergarten. But some of them couldn't offer the program because they didn't have any four-year-olds. Our next steps is to go out into the communities, especially the...

I appreciate the Member's comments and definitely take it into consideration. It's a great suggestion. With the amount of individuals and families we have on income assistance right now, clients, is going to be beneficial for them to understand the changes that we are going to be making in the months to come. Thank you.

As I mentioned, Mr. Speaker, there's 26 communities that we currently work with. The reason 26 communities is because we don’t have ECE regional office in all the communities, and the ones that are under 1,000 people, we work with them and we help them work on giving the applications to apply for this funding to support on-the-job training and support group-based activities in the community as well to develop that training. We'll continue to work with all our communities, the 26 of them, to make sure that they have an understanding and in having questions asked in a House like this also brings...