Caitlin Cleveland

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the wage grid for centre-based ELCC staff outlines a minimum hourly wage, and so it sets the basement of what people can get paid and then the wage grid does identify if people have different levels of education that it would go -- that minimum would go up. However, any additional wages on top of that would have to be borne by the service provider. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, any licensed operator of an early learning or childcare facility, whether it's a day home or a daycare, would have access to this funding. And I should say this, the grants and contributions also does include the $3.5 million that was negotiated by Regular Members in the fall, and so that money is included in there as well. I have -- I don't have a breakdown that would tell me exactly what portion of that is going to Tlicho on hand with me here today but can say that, you know, anywhere where there's a licensed childcare provider, they're...

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So Mr. Chair, there's a few things within that line item. The first is a sunset of funding through the education renewal and innovation funding. And then there is also -- sorry, cost savings that we realized through a change in the technology platform that we're using. And then we also, just in similar to the conversation we've just had about teachers, there was a bridging experience program that was part of this, and that there was also rolled back to a virtual experience in order to try and really extend our dollars as far as possible.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, not only do we have to make sure that we go out and we itemize all those pieces, we also need to make sure that we're conferring with our body partners on this. But in the meantime, we have had successes recently as far as taking pieces of land that are earmarked as ECE pieces of land and repurposing them. A great example of that is the skills training centre within the community of Fort Good Hope is going on what was traditionally a piece of ECE land that we were able to work with the community on and is now being turned into a training centre...

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, in order to do something like that, what I would be -- and stop me any time if somebody else would like to take this one. But I would have to go to FMB and specifically request for those line items if I wanted to do it where it appeared in the budget on its own line items. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I can confirm that the community learning centre in Fort Resolution is currently owned by the GNWT. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as like with every department, the Department of Education, Culture and Employment also adheres to the remote work policy and if there was an opportunity to staff a position and it could be done from another place, then the department would certainly consider it.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So this line item here, there's no reductions. It's related to -- sorry, student enrolment, I believe, and -- but there's no reductions in it.

Thank you. I just wanted to add to that. It is tied, though, to teacher salaries. And so if, say, a teacher has more years of experience then they would be in a higher salary grid, and so that would see some fluctuation there.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, that's the first order of business, is deciding how we would like to work together and to give us an idea of kind of how that will look from start to finish, I'd like to be able to pass to the deputy minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that would just be Aurora College.