Caitlin Cleveland

Sorry, was the question did the program relaunch itself?

Thank you, Madam Chair. So, Madam Chair, that was not my words. I literally said it is not the role of teachers to indoctrinate children. I also, though, did say that I think it is very good and very important if our kids are learning about politics in the classroom and they are learning about critical thinking and they are learning to stand up for themselves. I think that a teacher needs to be fair in how they do that, but I would be more than happy to share any of my other perspectives about parenting with the Member after we're done this today. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. So, Madam Chair, the increases in programming, the bulk of it comes from income assistance, and that is from the review that was done in the previous Assembly on income assistance that separated seniors and persons with disabilities into their own income assistance. And so there was additional funding put in to that and put into income assistance. There was also adjustments made on the market basket measure to ensure that the dollars that Northerners were getting were reflective of the actual costs, for example, of food in the Northwest Territories.

There's...

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Certainly, I will continue my advocacy, and I appreciate the amount that this topic has come up on the floor. I certainly talked about it frequently in the last term, and I'm happy to continue the honour of being able to work on it on this side. So thank you.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. So, Madam Chair, certainly appreciate the Member referencing that the community learning centres are still captured within our main estimates book. Certainly the announcement from Aurora College came after the books were printed and in all of our hands, so that change is not reflected here.

So regardless of whether or not Aurora College plans to operate the 21 community learning centres, there is still a responsibility for adult learning and basic education across the Northwest Territories and from the perspective of the department of education, a mandate to...

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. So, Madam Chair, this was $600,000 that was previously going to people who had completed their post-secondary education and if they returned to the North and they had remissible loans, they were able to remiss those loans quicker, and if they had repayable loans, they were also able to apply for that bonus up to a maximum for both instances of $10,000 within their lifetime. So for people who had remissible loans, the indication there was that the expectation was they stay and live in the North longer, and people who have repayable loans were expected to then...

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. So, Madam Chair, any outreach that I have received, I have responded to. And then the overall response would be meeting with stakeholders to determine their feedback through consultation, and then the results of that is the program that we announced on February -- last Friday, 21st, February 21st, and that's the program that relaunches this week here. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, it is very helpful so thank you to the Member for being specific about what they're looking for. And so we do, in the Northwest Territories, have safe schools regulations. It is the responsibility of all schools across the territory to ensure that they are providing safe, equitable, and an inclusive schooling environment to their students. And, of course, safety takes many different shapes and forms for different students across the territory. And education bodies are required to hold staff accountable for how they behave in that regard, and ECE...

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. And thank you to the Member for highlighting this program. It's certainly the program that I hear the most about, both on the floor and also certainly from constituents. It's a program that's meant to -- for low to mid income seniors to help them address the cost of their fuel. And the policy is to help them up to 80 percent, and then to support them on the budgeting side for the additional 20 percent. And people who have needs beyond that are encouraged, of course, to -- if they meet the criteria, to apply for income support for seniors and persons with...

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, knowing what we know now, I am not making any commitments for 2026. What we did when we paused the reopening of the program in January of this year was we actually went and we sat down with stakeholders before we relaunched the program under new expectations and new parameters. So the work that we're going to do this year in 2025 is sit down with our stakeholders and determine what the program is going to look like in 2026. And so before we've had the opportunity to do that, I won't be making any commitments as to what 2026 will look like. We will...