Wendy Bisaro

Now I’m really confused. I guess I need to ask the Minister if I could get the detailed page that he read from. I thought I heard him say Aboriginal Languages Secretariat.

Would I be able to find out when that review might be available?

Thanks to the Minister for that. I look forward to seeing that report. In the program delivery details, labour and career development, there’s a fairly large increase from 2013-14 to 2014-15. Could I get an explanation of what the increase is funding? Thank you.

Thanks to Mr. Heide. So you’re saying that Aurora College does not report to the government, they are reporting directly to the feds. Is that correct?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to say that I do support this motion for a couple of reasons. One is that I have been able to personally see this initiative in action twice now and it is providing education at the high school level to communities that would not normally be able to get the range of courses that they are getting through the e-learning initiative.

Secondly, I think the fact that this is being fully funded by the Beau-Del District Education Council is patently unfair. This is an initiative on the part of this particular district education council and they are being funded on a per...

And the amount that’s in the supplementary reserve at the moment? Thank you.

I don’t know, Mr. Chair. I wasn’t quite ready for that. I think I’ll just leave it at that. I appreciate the explanation and I think I knew that and had forgotten. So I’ll have further questions. Thank you.

Perhaps if Members could get that listing, that would be helpful.

The notes indicate that, Note 4 says, “The above excludes $600,000 budgeted for supplementary reserves.” Could I understand what supplementary reserves we are referencing? Is that the GNWT supplementary reserves or is that a reserve for the college? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks to Mr. Heide for that. Okay, having learned that, that’s great. That’s kind of what I thought, but my other concern, I guess, or lack of understanding, is that on page 10-35 we have another number, a different number again. We’ve got 148. So from 152 to 148, can I understand what the difference is there. Thank you.

Just one last comment, and I suspect that the Minister and the department are well aware, but the two school boards in Yellowknife are not fully funded by the GNWT, so I would think that at least a portion of their surplus and perhaps all of their surplus has been garnered through taxation of Yellowknife residents. I just want the Minister to be well aware of that and to consider that in their conversations.