Jackson Lafferty

That information would be with the college. I need to gather that information from either the college president or the board chair. With the information that we have through the Inuvik area, it’s all preliminary at this point. As I stated, we are looking for third-party funding and a federal contribution as well. If all goes well, we’re hoping to have those students taking the course in due time.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I don’t have the specific information in front of me, but I do know that this particular program is in the works in Inuvik. When I was there for the Beaufort-Delta Aboriginal Achievement Initiative meeting, I did tour the campus, as well. They have all the supplies already set up. They’re just looking for third-party funding, as well.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker... [English translation not provided.]

I will be seeking that information from the college and will get back to the Members on the courses that are being delivered in Yellowknife. If this particular course is going to be delivered here, when that is going to be taking place. I need to gather that information and I will be sharing that.

I can share this with the College Board of Governors. I do meet with them and especially with the chair. I can relay the message on to them.

They do have their short and long-term plans, as well, on what kind of courses to be delivered in the three main campuses. They can highlight what’s going to be delivered at the Yellowknife Campus for the next five to 10 years.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to just highlight those Pages that are in here doing a fabulous job. More specifically, those two students from Jean Wetrade Gameti School: Ms. Brenda Wedawin and Falicia McGee. I’d like to thank them for their hard work here.

I think we can either meet or exceed the number that we have, especially when we count the money that we allocate to the education board operations in the regional level. Most of our money, the $300 million, goes to the board operations. If we count those students at that level, I’m sure that we can exceed the numbers that are before us from last year on the ECE area. Those are the areas we need to stress and continue to work with on an annual basis.

Mahsi. This particular area is always of interest for us, because we have to fill that capacity at the community level and at the regional level. We do enforce and also have a thorough discussion with the education boards to have their targets, specific numbers of students that should be hired on an annual basis, as we do within our GNWT department. So we’ll continue to stress that on an annual basis when it comes to December-January period. Mahsi.

Mahsi. The information that I do have is eight students will be working within the Department of Justice. I don’t have the breakdown of where they’re going to be working, but I can provide that information to the Members. Mahsi.

That’s one of our objectives, is to work with other potential business partners, as well. We deal with whether it be the Mine Training Society or other NGOs and the business arm. We promote more of a building capacity with the students being hired. Even within our department having a job shadowing and other areas. Definitely those are areas that we need to continue to stress with the potential business partners and we’ll continue to do that.