Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks, Madam Chair. I move that this committee defer further consideration of the estimates for the Department of Education, Culture and Employment at this time. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Okay, thanks. I guess where I'm going with this is that, you know, even in the Minister's opening remarks, and I don't have them in front of me, I can't access them on Lootle. There was not one mention of reductions in the department. And so how was this actual reduction in the main estimates, how does it appear in what the Minister said in classifying the changes in the departmental budget from his opening remarks this morning or earlier this afternoon? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I'd like to get that information from the Minister. I think several of or some other MLAs would be interested in getting that as well.

And while the Minister's putting that together, could he also put together statistics in terms of how many were granted or how many were rejected for the last couple of years? I just would like to get a sense of that, because if there are a number of students that have and if that, you know, we have an increasing number over the last couple of years and more of them are getting rejected, that's grounds for changing the...

Thank you, Madam Chair. So the review that was done, has that been made available to the public? And if not and if there needed to be some redactions in terms of personnel matters or whatever, I could understand that, but is that a publicly available document? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks. I love Hay River but I'm from Yellowknife but thanks, Madam Chair.

Can the Minister tell us whether any jurisdictions in Canada have looked at providing some flexibility in terms of student eligibility for financial assistance, given COVID, postsecondary education students? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks. I don't have anything further.

Thanks, Madam Chair. On page 58 is the Students Loan Fund, and, you know, I guess I'd like to ask during the COVID pandemic of the last couple years, I had heard that some students lost, you know, a year or two of education or started, you know, maybe classes in person and then when they switched to virtual, that didn't really meet their learning needs.

What, if any, flexibility or extension to, you know, student eligibility periods or anything like that has been or were loan payments put on pause or whatever; what accommodation was made during the pandemic with regard to the student financial...

Thanks, Madam Chair. There's, yeah, three positions that are being lost in legal aid services, and I would just like to know more about why that's happening, especially if we're interested in increasing access to justice. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that. That's probably some of the best reasons I've ever heard to change the large emitter trust account and the policy around that. I talked to the Minister of Finance about it. She committed to review it. Nothing's changed. Nothing.

But I want to turn to the report on biofuels identified that 75 percent of the territory's emissions come from industry. I understand that De Beers is a large emitter, as a corporation has committed to carbon neutral by 2030. Yukon government is relying on biofuels as part of its climate change work...

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, again, we've got, like, three activities for almost $40 million. I'm sure the Minister will work towards getting a better breakdown of this in the future.

But I want to ask about the community advisory boards that were supposed to be set up for correctional facilities and whether they're indeed in place now and are there any costs associated with that? And I'm not opposed to costs associated with that. I think these serve a useful purpose, and they were, you know, built into the new legislation. So if I could get some details from the Minister. Thank you, Madam Chair...