Tom Beaulieu

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to return to item 21.

---Unanimous consent granted.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment.

How many visits did client service officers make to Lutselk’e in the following years:

2007-2008

2008-2009

2009-2010 (to date)

How many clients were seen during these visits broken down by approvals and refusals?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, can the Minister advise me if his Department of Education, Culture and Employment has done any assessments pertaining to school success and its direct correlation with daycares in those communities?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Earlier, in my Member’s statement, I spoke about daycare programs in Lutselk’e and Fort Resolution. I have questions for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment.

According to the department’s website, the department put out a document called Framework for Action: Early Childhood Development in May 2001. Can the Minister tell me if the department has released anything more recently on childhood development?

Mr. Chairman, I wish to move that we report progress.

---Carried

I thank the Minister for that response. I just want to touch on a couple of areas of homelessness, near homelessness or whatever. I just wanted to group these two issues together and ask the Minister two questions. On the whole issue of homelessness in smaller communities, I think that we’re continuing to have difficulty identifying homelessness in small communities. There is no provision in small communities for people that are homeless. So if you are homeless in a smaller community, essentially you just sleep on someone else’s couch. It’s not like an issue of being able to go somewhere into...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Committee will continue the consideration of Health and Social Services.

Mr. Chairman, I move that we report progress.

---Carried

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, will the Minister direct his staff to contact and work the daycare programs in Lutselk'e and Fort Resolution to review their needs? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Within our work with the Committee on Sustainable Rural and Remote Communities we have allocated money to early childhood development. Can the Minister of ECE advise me if any of that money will be targeted to daycares?