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I can provide the detailed breakdown of the number of capital projects that would be before us throughout the Northwest Territories. So I will provide it to the Members.
Mahsi. Yes, we’ll provide the priorities of the school from first priority to all schools in the Northwest Territories.
The education renewal,’ as you know, is before us now. Our expectation is that we want to hear as much as we can from the experts, whether it be the educators and community members, the grassroots people, the front-line workers. We’ve heard in the House that we need to listen to the front-line workers. So those are my expectations as Minister responsible. I want to listen to them and hear their input. And the time frame, of course, we’re hoping for late fall, early winter...
We’ll definitely provide that information.
Mr. Chair, as you know, it is in archives. I’m not sure we have the actual cost factor here, but is on an agreement of $1 million a year. The following year says $20,000 incremental. Then based on that, storing those artifacts, plus three staff, we can certainly provide that detail to the Members. Mahsi.
Mr. Chair, the consultant, again, has been engaged with the college. Our view is to present to standing committee and we can get their input, as well. Into if there are challenges or issues or concerns that may be brought to our attention, and reintegrated that into our findings. We want to present that on the 11th and have a report, documentation, obviously, tabled in this House, if that is the wish of the committee. We want to present and then share feedback from standing committee on the actual draft report that the contractor would have heard. Mahsi.
Mr. Chair, I guess part of the reason will be we’ve been working closely with them. We feel that we are in partnership with them, working closely together with them, the Government of Nunavut. At the same time, to have artifacts stored in Nunavut in a facility, as you know, it’s a high cost over there. But they’re realizing that they need their own facility, so they are working towards that and are in the planning stages. They are working closely with our department, as well, as they move forward as part of their capital planning process. Mahsi.
Mr. Chair, I’m glad the Member is raising this profile because what we have on paper states that there is a committee struck and established but it is a different version from Member’s, so we definitely need to follow through with that.
For the 16 different parties that are involved, I’d like to see a training plan, as the Member does. I would like to see a pamphlet as the Member is referring to. Once we leave here, that will be my instruction to the department, to coordinate that, get the latest status, what they’ve been working on, training needs and so forth. I think that’s what the Member...
Mahsi, Mr. Chair. This has been a work in progress for a number of years now. For 2012-13, as stated in the business plan, the revenue generation of a million and then it increases by $20,000 every year after that up to 2016. The Government of Nunavut is fully aware that they need their own stand-alone museum to store their artifacts. We are working with them on this and we have made it clear to them that our storage area has also got capacity that we need to look after within our own artifacts as well. They are fully aware of it. Mahsi.
Mahsi, Mr. Chair. Creating a trades centre has been brought up in this House as well. We are fully aware of the activity that is happening in the Sahtu region and also in other regions. That’s why we are working closely with the regional training partners in that area and also including the ITI department as well. The college needs to be involved, the Aboriginal organizations and also industry. We’re compiling all the information from them. We need to find out the community’s needs, the individual needs, what kind of training that’s going to be required, what can the college deliver and what...
Yes, Mr. Chair.