Jane Weyallon Armstrong

Thank you. Yeah, thank you. It's more like a family preservation program too as well, yeah.

So another one too is that to provide funding to address the impact of costs associated with the tuberculosis outbreak, so it's probably mostly the Indigenous people here because the majority of the people that, you know, living in Yellowknife too, it's half/half but, you know, probably mostly -- I don't know. For that one, the funding, is it just only for -- was that money only assessed only Yellowknife or, like -- or was that, this cost association -- associated, was it only for Yellowknife only, or...

Thank you. Is entrepreneurship in general being promoted by ITI on the ground in our small communities? Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, for programming such as the SEED program, the artist to market programs, or financing programs, can the Minister confirm if representatives from ITI and Prosper NWT go into the small communities to promote programs? Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's it for this section.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We're talking about money that's already been spent. So you know and I know the majority of the people living in small communities are Indigenous people. And for some of the small communities, we know that without agency nurses or contract staffing for nurses, we will be without nurses. We're not going to have any services. We have a health centre but we're not going to have any staff, nobody to look after the small communities. So I do support some of -- because of that, you know, I do support where we do need -- and here we're crying, we're asking for more doctors, we...

Thank you. Besides funding opportunities, what type of educational programming is available to develop business skills for residents in our small communities? Thank you.

Masi, Mr. Speaker. Today I am going to be talking about promoting entrepreneurship in the NWT. Mr. Speaker, quote, the Indigenous economy is about to take off. Mr. Speaker, this is according to a MacLean article from December 2024.

It is estimated that the potential value of the Indigenous economy in Canada is more than $100 billion. This is great news for the Indigenous population and businesses who, for far too long, were isolated from financial opportunities and success.

Mr. Speaker, a strong economic foundation is a priority of this Assembly. The Government of the Northwest Territories...

Okay. I just want to ask the Minister, so how many -- okay. NTPC, how many communities do we represent? Thank you.

Thank you. Now, so will the adult learners in small communities now be expected to attend high school classes in regular K through 12 programming? Thank you.

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Mr. Speaker, I would like to address the upcoming closure of all community learning centres across the territory in June. We have heard that Aurora College is ending in-person adult education programs that learning centres provide to Tlicho communities like Whati.

Mr. Speaker, Aurora College received almost $46 million in grants and contributions from the Government of the Northwest Territories in 2024. We should be doing more for small communities, not less. There was no consultation about these closures. Our people would not have agreed. The community...