Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment Minister of Education, Culture and Employment
Caitlin Cleveland was acclaimed to the 20th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly as the Member representing Kam Lake. Ms. Cleveland was elected to Executive Council of 20th Legislative Assembly. Ms. Cleveland was previously elected to the 19th Legislative Assembly as the Member representing Kam Lake.
Ms. Cleveland was raised in Yellowknife, NT and graduated from École St. Patrick High School. After studying Journalism and Photojournalism, Ms. Cleveland began her career as a Communications Officer Intern with the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT).
For the past 15 years, Ms. Cleveland has owned and operated Caitlin Cleveland Photography, which gave her the opportunity to connect with many northerners. In addition to Communications with the GNWT, Ms. Cleveland also worked in marketing for Northwestel and most recently as a Senior Policy Analyst in the Department of Finance (GNWT).
Ms. Cleveland enjoys spending her time outdoors fishing, skiing, and travelling with her family.
Ms. Cleveland is married to Jeffrey Bowden and together they have three motivated, independent children: Jackson, Owen and Dalyn.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Further to the Member's question, no, that was not a change that occurred in these main estimates. And I'd like to pass it back to the deputy minister.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, not to go on for too long, but I would say that we are working on this strategy every single day. We are supporting currently 42 exploration projects within the territory. We have Pathfinders, a fabulous team of Pathfinders that work every day to make sure that people are connected. We are ensuring that we are including Indigenous governments when those that need funding sources, if they want to join the GNWT at places like PDAC and Roundup, and making sure that we're bringing people together. When it comes to education, we're in the process of...
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, the arts funding from ECE is still seen in the main estimates under ECE for this year. So currently what's happening is the planning of how to do that amalgamation. So you won't see any of those dollars that used to be in ECE in ITI. They are still located in the Education, Culture and Employment main estimates at this time. Thank you.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it was leveraging from the ratio from last year's mining incentive program, so it would be based on company reporting. Thank you.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, no. And the reason for that is what we're looking at doing is continuing to use this funding but to leverage it to source other funding mechanisms, for example through CanNor as well. There is even a permafrost project that is on the go just outside of Yellowknife here as well. And so there's a ton of opportunity. And not only with CanNor but also with Enercan to be able to combine our budgets together in order to do more. And so that's what this is looking at is how can we use what we have in order to leverage additional funding from the federal...
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, that was part of our fiscal sustainability reduction and our ask that Prosper NWT look at different options as to how to create more sustainability within the organization with less investment from the GNWT. And so I am working with Prosper NWT, with their board as well, to figure out what the future looks like and how they can continue to provide great service to businesses across the territory. Thank you.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we're just going to try to pull that in -- 2020. There we go, perfect. Thank you. And if the Member would like, we'd be more than happy to share that with her as well. Thank you.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I took that as a comment but very happy to respond to it.
We often hear about the need to diversify our economy in the Northwest Territories, and we certainly do already have a very diverse economy, and when we look at, you know, where to go tomorrow and what opportunities sit before us, I agree with the Member that we have a tremendous amount of areas in the North that have the ability to grow and the ability to flourish and that we need to take stock of what our assets are and where we're going to get the biggest return on our investment as we go...
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, there is interest. There is the M18 up in IRC region. There's also conversation in regards to the offshore accord. And there is also some really unique research projects that are going on right now in the Northwest Territories through the carbon capture, so carbon sequestration in the territory where we have a type of rock essentially in the territory, up in the Beaufort Delta, that can take carbon dioxide that is a by-product of the processing of this material. So there's some really neat stuff going on. There is also meetings happening this week...
