Frederick Blake Jr.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a quick question to the junior kindergarten upgrades. I’m not sure if this has to do with the, I believe it is, a little over $15,000 per community that was going to take on junior kindergarten, but I believe last year was the cutoff, I believe, for schools that were willing to take on junior kindergarten. If they didn’t, then there’s a possibility that they’d lose that funding. Since we’re carrying this over, I would like to say, if this coming school year, if a school wanted to do JK, would they still get that amount of money? Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, the main area that has the highest winds is from kilometer zero to about kilometer 30. From the border to the gorge is, you know, the area that we get the high winds from the Yukon and territories. Some days it’s calm on one side and blowing on the other, and those are the areas that really need the attention for delineators along the highway, similar to the Yukon. They have them about six feet up in the air, because sometimes in high winds you can barely see. They’re spaced about maybe 30 meters apart; at times it’s difficult to see one from the other. I think similar to what...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’d like to bring your attention back to the Premier’s Awards ceremony that took place June 15, 2016. Mr. Speaker, Members of the Mackenzie Delta as well as the Gwich’in Tribal Council were honored for various awards. Please allow me to congratulate Shirley Snowshoe from Fort McPherson, Velma lllisiak from Aklavik, Alestine Andre from Tsiigehtchic, Sarah Jerome originally from Fort McPherson, as well as Norman Snowshoe and Diane Baxter from the Gwich’in Tribal Council for the collaboration award for Gwich’in curriculum development. Also David Krutko from...

Thank you, and I hope that included capital, as well. I know there are plans on reducing that, as well. I’ll bring that up later on in the pages here. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. O’Reilly. Mr. Kalgutkar.

Thank you, Mr. Testart. Mr. Heffernan.

Thank you, Mr. O’Reilly. Mr. Kalgutkar.

Thank you, Mr. Simpson. Minister McLeod?

Thank you, Mr. Kalgutkar. Mr. O’Reilly.

Thank you, Mr. O’Reilly. Minister McLeod.