Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources. Back to my statement on on-the-land programming for youth, Mr. Speaker, my first question is: what youth on-the-land programs are available to students in the Beaufort Delta? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Masi. Minister of Environment and Natural Resources.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we recognize the importance of getting our youth out on the land. As such, we have the Take a Kid Trapping program that we offer in all the regions across the Northwest Territories. As well, through the NWT youth core there is money that is earmarked for a lot of -- it is an application process, but it is distributed evenly across the Northwest Territories. The communities and the schools take advantage of the money that this government has to offer in offering these programs to their youth. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
I appreciate the response. Mr. Speaker, my second question is: what is the Government of the Northwest Territories doing to ensure ENR's on-the-land youth programming is a permanent part of NWT students' education?
This year, ENR, we are actually going through the numerous applications that we have right now from several schools across the Northwest Territories to try and access some of the funding that we have available. One of the ways that we continue to support ontheland programming through the youth is through the budget and having the line item in it every year so that there is a defined pot of money that the schools can apply for. That has been going on for a while. Again, we recognize the importance of these programs to youth out there, so that will continue to be a line item in the budget.
I appreciate that response. Mr. Speaker, my final question is: what does ENR do to promote opportunities like Tundra Science Camp or Aurora College environmental programs in remote communities in the NWT?
The Tundra Science Camp is available to all youth across the NWT, and it is actually promoted through our regional offices and local schools. Other youth ecology camps are also available for support, and it goes back to some of the funding I was speaking to in the youth core. I notice there are a few in here where, in the Deh Cho region, for example, they have an ecology camp that is funded through one of these programs. Through other regions, as well, they have ecology camps.
ENR will continue to support, with some of our other departments, these types of opportunities for our youth across the NWT, promoted through the schools. The schools know that the funding is available. As a Legislative Assembly, we have to ensure that we have funds that are earmarked for it, and that goes back to my comment before about having it as a line item in the budget, where we continue to support it every year.
Masi. Oral questions. Member for Deh Cho.
