Tom Beaulieu

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, when the GNWT lays off positions or employees there's a process that help them identify new jobs where P1s have been eliminated. In situations where only the P1 is eliminated, whether it be filled by a casual or a seasonal employee, then that person that's impacted is the only one that has to deal with it. We need to go the extra mile to try to find positions. Can the Minister advise me what efforts were made to minimize the impacts on the change of the crew configuration so that people that used to be in those positions, maybe casuals, are given...

Mr. Speaker, I'd like to ask the Minister another question on this. Mr. Speaker, has the Minister engaged other Ministers in carrying out the mandate of increasing employment in small communities specific to this particular program?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize Iris Catholique. She is a former resident of Lutselk'e. Her family is still in Lutselk'e, I think she resides in Yellowknife now. Thank you.

No. I agree that we had already approved all of this, so we are moving forward.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I'm just looking at again the inclusive schooling budget and I'm looking at things like the rates of graduation. Something indicates to me that if you have very low graduation rates that then there would be a higher need for inclusive schooling. I'm wondering if, in addition to the maybe sort of like an informal assessment that's being done by teachers, for I don't really know what purpose if it's not going to shift inclusive school dollars. We also have a long history of knowing what the graduation rates are between communities, whether they be large...

Thanks Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, back to inclusive schooling, can the Minister advise if it's based on the assessment of the student, I was wondering if they need to have parental consent before they assess the individual students?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, that was the response I was looking for. I just wanted to indicate that with the departments that we are reviewing, because there is information out there on the various ways that the departments go about hiring people into the department. I just wanted to confirm for the record that this department follows the Affirmative Action Policy all the time. Each hire that comes into Education, Culture and Employment, so there is never a situation where individuals would just be hired without going through a process that is the affirmative action program that the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, committee wishes to continue on with Tabled Document 50-18(2), NWT Main Estimates, 2016-2017 and we would like to do the Department of Education, Culture and Employment today. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Can the Minister advise how the Department of ECE will be allocating the small community employment program to the communities, whether project based or so much per community, just a quick word on how the funding will be allocated to the small communities?

Marci cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, during my Member's statement I’d talked about the small community employment program that's administered by ECE. I'd like to ask the Minister a couple of questions. Mr. Speaker, what is the plan for the utilization of the small community employment program in this fiscal year?