Tom Beaulieu

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am going to move on to a different topic, Mr. Chair. We were dealing with the small community employment support program and for quite a while in discussions with the department, and then a decision was made by the government to put an additional $3 million into that program, which is excellent. We were under the assumption, however, that the budget was $1.3 million, but we can see from this budget in front of us that the actual budget last year was $339,000 and was carried into this year. Our request initially was to have the overall budget at $5 million, but it seemed...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the ADM is telling me that there is no reduction as a result of the plan to eliminate TEP at this point or in this budget. Is that correct? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. Then there is no decrease to this budget as a result of the plan to eliminate those two programs? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I move that the committee defer further consideration of the estimates for the Department of Education, Culture and Employment at this time. Marci cho, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, committee wishes to consider Tabled Document 26118(12), Northwest Territories Main Estimates, 20172018, and continue with the Department of Education, Culture and Employment and, time permitting, the Department of Infrastructure. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, on page 49, the rollup of the various amounts to the district authorities and councils, education councils, and education authorities, my understanding from earlier discussion is that that number would go up by $5.1 million when the junior kindergarten money is put into it, so the new number for 201718 would be $156,869,000? Thank you.

I would like to ask the Minister why we are not going after the National Infrastructure Fund for the Slave Geological Province road?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Small Community Employment Program, if it has these strings attached to it, it is probably not going to be deliverable. There is $339,000 that the government was, I guess, barely delivering, or there was more money in that, and we are not able to deliver it. When we talk about small employment, we want to create jobs. We do not want that to be a subsidy. I recognize that it is a deep subsidy, 80 per cent, and the Minister has made that clear. Even so, I think that there are too many strings attached to this money that will probably go unspent, and...

Marci cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have questions for the Minister of Transportation on his Minister's statement. As we are proposing more P3 projects adding Slave Geological to the previous P3 proposal for a Whati road, I would like to ask the Minister if there is any indication on when the P3 approval of the Whati road would occur? Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, could I get clarification on what "community projects" means? Thank you, Mr. Chair.