Jane Weyallon Armstrong

It's good, thank you. Thank you for the information, which I'm sure there's people listening and our leaders are listening too as well. So it's good to know that number.

And, yeah, so minority language education a second language, well, that's for French. But I know it was in the budget that Aurora College was going to be or it was part of their budget where they were going to deliver a diploma program for language. Why that program never went further or, like, it was never the department never did anything about it knowing the importance of the Indigenous language and, you know and now that...

Thank you. Yeah, no, I know many of these programs that I know that our constituents use these funds for culture and language. So it is important for them. That's how we maintain and try to keep our culture and language, you know, going. Because just like my colleague from Mackenzie Delta said, you know, it's  it does have an impact, you know, now that younger generation are not speaking the language more. So it is important that it  it would have been nice if there was  if the budget was a little bit more than as it is here, especially for Indigenous language, knowing that there's more...

Thank you. My question was regarding what MLA Morgan was referring to, education authority contributions. It says that, you know, money is allocated based on previous school year. So it is based on enrolment formula. So I just wanted to ask the Minister if there's a breakdown of regions, you know, which region is most impacted that, you know, there is a decrease in this budget. So, yeah, just which region is most impacted?

Well, I see here Indigenous scholarship. I guess that must be part of  that's part of the revitalization education program. So I think maybe if the Minister can explain a bit about this Indigenous scholarship.

I will let some people know, especially in the small communities. So hopefully from this $10.6 million, we'll get three new daycare centre in Tlicho region. I'm just, so or at least to one of the communities, you know, that really needs the child care services. But and you said so you don't know how this funding will be allocated. How is the department or allocating this one, is it based on need or for child care services?

Yeah, thank you. That's about it. So I'll just stop there. Thank you.

Because the Minister mentioned North Slave, and I've been saying for quite some time that, you know, Tlicho regions. I want to know about the Tlicho region because we're not part of the North Slave. So North Slave consists of, as I've said before, Tu NedheWiilideh's riding as well, you know, so but if you have the number, it would be nice, you know. I would like to hear that number.

And I know that in small communities, due to the populations, I know many of the communities are not going to have child care centre, daycare centre. So how many licensed day home is there in small communities?

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, I know there are some people  some young people that I know that went to work at the mine and got their journeyman in millwrights and electricians and welding. You know, those are really greatly needed, and it would be nice to see more, like, in mechanics as well and plumbing, which we're lacking in a lot of small communities. So that is good. It's good that they're meeting with Indigenous government or Indigenous government or organizations.

The career development training, and I know it's not that much, but I just want to know what happened to this...

Yes, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just like my colleague said about the Minister of housing, that was a good response to our motion, and I'm looking forward to working with them. And then I'm looking forward to working with her, or all of us looking forward to working with her and then with Department of Finance to fix this. And can we have a recorded vote for this. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Okay, you know, these are  a lot of these programs and services, it's very important for many of the small communities. And I know when I  a lot of our young people always  when they're talking  you know, in high school, they always  a lot of them have said, I want to work at the mine, you know, because we know that postsecondary is not for everybody so a lot of them said, I want to work at the mine, you know, make money and maybe from there, I'll  you know, like, they'll get their trades, you know, into trades program or, you know, get an apprenticeship through mining...