Robert Hawkins

I will once again thank the Minister for his generosity and I will leave it at that point. I will take it as he’s offered it.

Mr. Chairman, can I have that broken out by LHO, please? Thank you.

When can that be expected to be put together?

Mr. Chairman, just expanding a little further, so if there is almost 24 percent shortage here, how do they make up that recovery of that percentage?

What’s to stop the Housing Corporation from raising kilowatt usage from six cents to 12 cents?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the answers from the Premier and I’m just trying to get a sense of whether this particular initiative has stalled with all the training cancelled going forward. What is the Premier doing to ensure that the training gets back up and running and we can see some actual results in our territorial programming?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, I just couldn’t let it go by. It’s not that I think the Housing Corp does nothing; it’s not that assumption at all. I’m just trying to buy into what’s the motivator here to ensure people are using power reasonably. I don’t want to say conservatively, I don’t want to make people live by one light bulb on the house and they all huddle around it to stay warm and to read. I’m not suggesting that at all. I’m just saying good and reasonable management and that’s what I’m asking. Has the department identified what is considered a normal level of consumption for the...

When can Members see a copy of that particular policy and initiative that I’ve referred to, which is the gender-based analysis? When can the public get a chance to have a look at it and see it implemented into government policy?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In my Member’s statement I talked about early childhood education. UNESCO says early childhood education is defined by the years of birth to eight years old. They believe that it makes a remarkable difference on the brain development of young people if early education is offered early in the beginning of school years, before the traditional time of grades 1 to 4.

I would like to ask the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment what his government and department can do to help support schools that wish to offer junior education programs.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I would like to speak about the importance of early education and how I believe that ECE should support junior kindergarten in our future years.

The GNWT has two strategic initiatives in this area. One provides funding for the languages initiatives that supports local language programming for preschool children and the second provides some assistance to regions to assist early childhood providers. In Yellowknife, preschool programs and preschool bilingual programs are offered on a fee base. There is also a program at the Yellowknife Catholic Schools for children...